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Navigator Joe Bernardy just wrote about “awestruck” and said that we who are familiar with the Bible don’t experience it as much.

We should be awestruck by the resurrection that we just celebrated Sunday. The early disciples certainly were! As I shared Monday, Andy Stanley pointed out that we wouldn’t have Christianity today if it hadn’t been for the resurrection. There would have been no one to start it!

Years ago, some friends of ours were reading the Bible aloud with another couple, brand-new believers (or “pre-believers,” I don’t remember). Our friends told this story:

We were reading Acts 5, the story of Ananias and Saphira who lied to Peter about how much they had received from the sale of property. When confronted separately they both dropped dead. When those of us who grew up with this story hear it, we think, “Serves ‘em right! They shouldn’t have done that!” But the account closes with, “So great fear came upon all the church and upon all who heard these things.” (Acts 5.11, NKJV). The response of the couple, unfamiliar with the Bible, was a startled, “Well, I guess!!”

The ability to be “awestruck” or “astonished” is something I’m working at. 

When the Apostle John, good friend of Jesus, saw Jesus in his glorified state as recorded in Revelation 1.12 – 16, his awestruck response was simple:

And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. (Revelation 1.17, NKJV)