In his excellent little book, How Can It be All Right When Everything Is All Wrong?,   Professor Lew Smedes says that one source of our salvation is to cultivate a sense of wonder.  He reminds us that Jesus was a source of wonder to all who came into contact with Him, from the humble shepherds who were struck with wonder at the sight of blazing angels sashaying around the Judean hills to the Wise Men from the East who came and laid their gifts at Jesus’ feet and wondered.  All His life Jesus made people wonder.  Smedes says:

As a boy, (Jesus) engaged in dialogue with learned men, all ripe with scholarly “ifs” and “buts”; but, we are told, they wondered at him.  He boggled people’s minds all his life.  Common people saw him and sensed that there was more to him than met the eye.  Common se…