The Re-enchantment - Recovering Wonder, Symbol, and Mystery in an Age of Cynicism
✧ “Unless you become as little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”
— Matthew 18:3
A dense fog of irony, deconstruction, and digital cynicism has settled over the modern soul.
Pixels have replaced presence. Algorithms have eclipsed awe.
Mystery is mocked, symbol is stripped, and wonder is marketed as nostalgia.
But the Kingdom can never be reduced to commentary.
The Lamb is not a concept.
He is living fire, weaving meaning into all things.
The Spirit is summoning a company that will re-enchant the earth
raising the Bride from sterile skepticism into luminous astonishment.
✧ The Crisis of Cynicism
Information overload + unending mockery = a low-grade spell of unbelief.
When everything is explained, nothing is sacred.
When everything is ironic, nothing is intimate.
And the heart starves.
Cynicism is not intelligence; it is traumatized wonder.
It is hope that has been disappointed and now wears sarcasm as armor.
Yet every armor has a crack, where glory can enter.
✧ Re-enchantment Defined
Re-enchantment is not retreating into fantasy.
It is the restoration of sacramental vision
seeing the cosmos as charged with God,
the mundane as portal,
the ordinary as threshold.
It is symbol restored:
Bread is body, wine is blood, tears are intercession, stars are stories.
It is mystery welcomed:
Not everything must be solved; some things must be savored.
It is wonder enthroned:
Childlike awe becomes a weapon against despair.
✧ Why Wonder Matters to the Elect
The elect are not thrill-seekers; they are meaning-bearers.
Without wonder, we:
• Reduce the Kingdom to principles, not presence
• Preach sermons devoid of encounter
• Engage culture only through critique, never through beauty
• Lose the contemplative gaze that beholds the Lamb in all things
Wonder is the womb of revelation.
If awe dies, prophecy dries.
✧ Practices of Re-enchantment
Slow Gaze — Linger on creation until gratitude blossoms.
Lectio Natura — Read the book of nature as you read Scripture; let clouds preach, rivers prophesy.
Symbolic Living — Wear, write, paint, and craft with intentional metaphor; let everything hint at greater glory.
Sabbath of Senses — One day a week, taste food slowly, feel grass barefoot, watch stars in silence.
Storytelling — Share testimonies, myths, and parables that kindle imagination instead of data-dumping facts.
✧ Restoring Sacred Language
Babylon drains words of power; Zion re-anoints them.
We refuse to call grace “luck,” destiny “coincidence,” or glory “good vibes.”
We reclaim holy vocabulary: flame, throne, miracle, covenant, eternity.
Language either enchants or erodes perception.
The elect sharpen tongues to paint portals, not platitudes.
✧ Beauty as Spiritual Warfare
Beauty disarms cynicism.
When a poem makes a skeptic weep, the spell breaks.
When a melody awakens childhood memory, walls crack.
When art births longing, the heart remembers Eden.
Thus artists, poets, gardeners, cooks, and designers are co-warriors with prophets and preachers.
🔥 Key Scriptures for Meditation
• Matthew 18:3 — “Become as little children.”
• Psalm 19:1 — “The heavens declare the glory of God.”
• Romans 1:20 — “Invisible attributes… clearly seen in creation.”
• Revelation 4:8 — Creatures cry “Holy” day and night, endless wonder.
• Isaiah 6:3 — “The whole earth is full of His glory.”
• Colossians 1:17 — “In Him all things hold together.”
✧ Final Word to the Elect
Let the cynics scoff; you were born to gasp.
Let Babylon dissect; you were born to behold.
Let data flood the earth; you carry living symbols.
Re-enchant your vision,
Speak in sacred tongue,
And watch dry bones dream again.
For the Kingdom is not grey.
It is emerald rainbows, sapphire thrones, and golden streets.
It is wonder without end.
Return to awe, beloved,
and the world will remember why it was created.
— Joe Restman