Starting Right
Starting Right is a 5 minute Day Starter to help keep you motivated, encouraged, and focused throughout your day. DannyMac is a pastor, teacher, motivational speaker, husband, and father. His years of leading and training people have given him vast experience in helping individuals to accomplish change in their lives and meet their goals. He can help you set the course for your day by offering practical advice from God's Word in a positive and fun way. There is no better way to begin your day than by Starting Right with DannyMac.
Starting Right
Seven Wonders: The Ones We Often Overlook
Experience the extraordinary in the ordinary as we journey through a delightful story about a geography class tasked with identifying the seven wonders of the world. Here, a clever yet quiet girl surprises her classmates with a list that includes the sensory wonders of human existence: to touch, taste, see, hear, run, laugh, and love. This fresh perspective prompts listeners to rethink what constitutes a “wonder” and highlights the incredible gifts that surround us daily.
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Good morning and welcome to Starting Right with Danny Mac. I'm going to be here every Monday to Friday to help you get a great five-minute start to your day. So grab your cup of coffee, sit back, relax and let me help you start your day right. The teacher of a grade eight geography class was beginning a series on the seven wonders of the world. She introduced the class by asking the students what they thought the seven wonders were. What she was looking for was to see how many of the students knew what. The classic response to that question was. What are the seven wonders that people declare in the world today? Now, most of us will recognize them, number one being the Great Pyramids of Egypt, number two being the Taj Mahal, number three, the Grand Canyon. Number four, the Panama Canal. Number five, the Empire State Building. Number six, st Peter's Basilica. And number seven, the Great Wall of China.
Speaker 1:She'd handed out sheets to each of the students asking them to write down what their views were, and while she was gathering up the papers, she noted that one student, a quiet girl, hadn't turned her paper in yet, so she asked the girl if she was having trouble with her list. The quiet girl replied yes, a little. I couldn't quite make up my mind because there are so many. And the teacher said well, tell us what you have and maybe we all can help. The girl hesitated awkwardly and then read I think the seven wonders of the world are number one to touch, number two to taste, number three to see, number four to hear she hesitated a little. And then number five to run, number six to laugh. And number seven has to be to love. There were a couple students who loudly proclaimed how dumb that list was. There were a couple students who loudly proclaimed how dumb that list was. But then there was the discussion the class had, and before long there was this general consensus within the class that the lists that this young girl had put together really were wonders of the world, and even the teacher couldn't argue with it.
Speaker 1:It is often far too easy for us to look at what man has done and refer to them as wonders, while we overlook everything that God has done. We tend to call those things ordinary, when in fact they truly are wonders. How powerful and incredible are the things that God has given us and done for us? I'm going to get back to the young students list in just a moment, but let's remind ourselves of what God has actually created that is far more wondrous than anything that man has created on this earth. Isaiah, chapter 40, verse 26,.
Speaker 1:Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens. Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls each fourth by its name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing. Just think about that for a moment. God not only flung the stars into the sky from his fingers, but the millions and millions of stars that are out there. God knows each one of them by name Over in Psalm 104, verses 24 and 25,.
Speaker 1:How many are your works, o Lord? In wisdom, you made them all. The earth is full of your creatures. There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things, both great and small. All we have to do is take a quick look around us and we see the wonder of what God has created the stars in the sky, the sun, the moon, the sea, the mountains, the plains, the plants, the animals. All these things that are around us. God created and he created them out of nothing. He spoke and it became real. That truly is wondrous.
Speaker 1:And then there are other things this young student talked about. These are very personal wonders and yet they are no less wonderful to be able to touch and to taste, and to see, to hear, to run, to laugh and to love. Can you imagine life without those things? Those are tremendous gifts from God, and he put them in place when he created us. He made us with the ability to experience those things. So what are your seven wonders of the world? What things impress you the very most when you think of them today? Thank God for them and then tell somebody else why you're thankful. God has blessed us with so very much, and we bless Him back when we thank Him for what he's given us. Have a great day, my friends. We'll talk again tomorrow. Thank you for listening today and I invite you to join me Monday to Friday, right here on Starting Right with Danny Mac.
