Daily writing prompt

If you won two free plane tickets, where would you go?

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I want to go where Christ takes me. I depend on Him to daily lift me up and carry me forward. As I wait (Psalm 27:14) and rely (Proverbs 3:5-6) on Him, I enter into His rest (Hebrews 4:10) and His peace. (Philippians 4:7) My inner man begins to soar and mount up with wings like eagles. (Isaiah 40:31) Christ flies me to awe, wonder, and adoration. As I praise and thank Him with all of my heart (John 4:24) He leads me by His Spirit. (Romans 8:14)

Rely on Jesus and be amazed!

I am amazed,
My mind is dazed,
My spirit raised,
When I have gazed
At Jesus Christ.

If you know
Jesus
Then show
Jesus
In the way
That you go
Through your life.

When the early Christians gathered together there was a sense of awe among them. (Acts 2:43) The Bible tells Christians to worship God with awe (sometimes translated as “the fear of God”). (Hebrews 12:28) I believe that awe is the missing ingredient among Christians today.

Awe is amazed and overcome by the reality of the risen Jesus, but heartless Christianity stays stuck in statistics, analysis, and human understanding. Let the risen Jesus deeply touch your heart and fill you with awe, wonder, and amazement. Then you, will humbly cry out to Him like His disciple Thomas did, and say with all your being, “My Lord and My God!” (John 20:28)

Where and when are you amazed and overcome by the awe of God? Why not right where you are right now? Go beyond religious analysis and ideas to the inner experience of the presence, power, and reality of the risen Jesus.

An actual physical location that I would go if I won two free plane tickets is Mount Athos. It’s a mountain and peninsula off of Greece where Orthodox monks have gazed at Jesus and worshipped with awe for more than a thousand years.

“Mount Athos is a special land, half-way between Heaven and earth. For the past 1,300 years it has been set apart from all other earthly countries and its way of life does not conform to worldly standards. It is inhabited by men who are not satisfied by all that the world has to offer; they seek something more than the material world . . . By means of patient endurance and supernatural struggles, they have found there what they were seeking, and they embrace it as a great treasure . . . On the Holy Mountain men follow a new way of life that gives a foretaste of future blessedness.” –Archimandrite Cherubim (June 1968)

“Mount Athos has a life, a culture of its own. And its apartness has enabled it to preserve that very special culture even as a more superficial, worldwide, consumer culture pervades the rest of the world.” –Basil Pennington (1978)