Sharing Wonder With a Friend
Month 2: Does God Exist? · Loving Others
Today's Scripture
Read together: Psalm 145:4–5
4 One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts— 5 the glorious splendor of Your majesty. And I will meditate on Your wondrous works.
Memory Verse
“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.”— Romans 1:20 (BSB)
📖 Bible-in-a-Year (optional)
Today's reading: 2 Corinthians 11–13
Reading the whole Bible in a year — do this when you have extra time. (Around Day 50 of 365 — God's strength made perfect in weakness.)The Heart of It
"One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts." That little verse describes a chain. Wonder gets passed from one person to the next. It's like a candle lighting another candle. This month we've filled up on reasons to believe. We saw design in our bodies. We saw a finely tuned world. We saw truth written on hearts. But all that wonder isn't meant to stay locked inside you. It's meant to spill. Loving others means sharing the most amazing thing you know. The universe has a Maker who loves them! And the good news is, you don't need a science degree to share it. You just need to be the kind of friend who says, "Hey, isn't this incredible?"
The easiest way to start isn't with an argument. It's with awe. Maybe you and a friend are lying on the grass watching clouds. Maybe you're staring at a beetle's shiny shell. You can simply wonder out loud: "Doesn't it seem like somebody designed this?" That's not preachy. It's honest, and it's inviting. You're not cornering anyone. You're handing them a doorway. Some friends will walk through it with questions, and you can share what you've learned. Others will just shrug, and that's okay too. Your job is to plant a seed of wonder and keep being a good, kind friend. Remember, the goal of all this defending and explaining was never to win. It was to love. We share the wonder because we want our friends to meet the One behind it.
Around the Table
When you see something amazing God made, you can tell a friend, "Look what God made!" Sharing wonder is a way to share God.
Let's do it: Find one cool thing today and say to someone, "God made that — isn't it amazing?"
says one generation tells the next about God's works. Who told you about God? Who could you tell?
Let's talk: What's a "wow" thing about creation you'd love to show a friend?
Starting with shared wonder often opens a friend's heart better than starting with a debate. You just ask, "Doesn't it look designed?" Why does awe disarm people when arguments don't?
Let's go deeper: Pick one friend and one piece of God's creation you could wonder about together this week. Make a plan to actually do it.
💬 Conversation Starter
If you could take a friend to see one amazing thing God made, where would you go? Maybe a waterfall. Maybe the stars. Maybe the bottom of the ocean. Where would you go, and why? Sharing wonder is the start of sharing God.
🛡️ Defending the Faith
You don't have to launch into a speech to share your faith. You can simply invite a friend to wonder with you. Just ask, "Doesn't this look designed to you?" Curiosity opens doors that lectures close. That's defending the faith "with gentleness and respect" (). It's gentle, honest, and aimed at the heart.
For Dad · Go Deeper
frames evangelism as generational, a baton of awe handed down. The most natural apologetics your children will ever do flows out of genuine wonder, not memorized scripts. That is why the home is the training ground. Children who grow up hearing their dad marvel at creation will learn to evangelize the way they learned to talk: by imitation. So cultivate a household vocabulary of awe. Pause at sunsets. Name the design in a spider's web. Ask "who could have made this?" out loud. This builds a posture of worship that becomes naturally contagious to their friends. And keep the aim clear. The point of every reason we've studied this month is not to win arguments but to win people, gently, into the wonder of knowing their Maker. Send your kids out not as debaters but as friends who can't help sharing the most beautiful thing they know.
Draws on: Sean McDowell, So the Next Generation Will Know.
Let's Pray Together
"Father, the whole world is full of Your wonders. Make us friends who love to share what we see of You. Give us courage to invite others in. We want them to know the wonder of knowing You. In Jesus' name, amen."
Wonder is meant to spill. I get to hand a friend the most amazing news there is. The world has a Maker who loves them.