A preschooler had just finished her first week ever of Vacation Bible School. Apparently it had been a good experience. When asked, she told her mother “Vacation Bible School was amazable.” Now adults may smile at the use of such a word, but to a child caught up in the excitement of learning about God it was a beautiful way to express it. She probably said more than she understood. Nonetheless, she found a way to describe a profound happening in her young life. How long has it been since you had an “amazable” event in your life? How long has it been since you needed to invent a word to describe something that ordinary words do not cover? From time to time it is good to have an “amazable” experience. It is imperative that we have some blessed events come our way lest we become morbidly pessimistic. Life is filled with too many complicated issues. There is often mystery without meaning, problems without solutions, and heartache without comfort. Tragedy, sorrow, and death can take their toll upon us. As we move closer and closer to our final destiny we need some “amazable” things to cheer us on our way. It is not easy being human. Without some unexplainable joy overtaking us on the journey we could easily give up in hopeless despair.
Sometimes we may miss that which is “amazable.” We turn a corner and there is God as big as life. If we fail to celebrate and share such an encounter it may have little or no effect upon us. The small light that shines into the darkness of our despair is better than no light at all. The more we focus upon it the brighter it glows to dispel the black that may surround us.
Friends who come our way in times of need may not overwhelm us, yet they are “amazable” in the way they can help heal our hurts. Sin may overtake us and guilt may unmercifully whip us, but grace is God’s “amazable” reaction. He forgives the repentant and encourages the wayward to sin no more.
Love is an “amazable” ingredient of life. The capacity to care and to be cared for are often unexplainable, undeserved, and “amazable.” Being alive is “amazable” when we consider the fragile nature of our existence. Let us, therefore, never get too old to look through childish eyes and discover that which is “amazable.”
