"When he rolls up his sleeves, he ain't just putting on the ritz, Our God is an awesome God..."
Rich Mullins, 1988.
Awesome is defined as inspiring awe, showing or characterized by awe, or as a slang term meaning very impressive. What better word to describe the creator of the Universe is there than awesome.
Deuteronomy 7:21 says; Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.
This morning I feel so wonderful, though I hurt. Isn't that awesome?
This morning there still is a degree of coolness in the air though it will be hot and humid later. Isn't that awesome?
This morning I feel so inadequate, though He is worthy enough for both of us. Isn't that awesome?
In this country today, as the sun crawls over the horizon, there are so many inadeqequicies. I read recently the General Conference of the United Methodist Church spent more than 2 million bucks on its every-four-year meet. Seems that as we try to figure out what we're doing as a denomination, and what services we need to be cutting to make ends meet, we could start with that, doesn't it?
But while our methods are questionable, this I know today as I knew yesterday and as I pray I will know tomorrow: Our God is an awesome God.
There is none like him; He is an awesome God. We've gotten way, way too wrapped up in our religion, I'm afraid, to notice our God. His face is matchless. His feats still are beond explanation. He should inspire quiet reverence, grateful hearts, moments of silence and days of awesome fear.
Instead, we argue and fight over religion, over sexuality, over government, over stuff. We should marvel at the awesomeness of God, but we fall instead to idols of money and such.
Even those who do not believe must admit that if God exists, He must be awesome. That's how awesome is the glory of God.
One day, the Bible says, every knee shall bow. But in the meantime, those of us who believe should practice falling before the awesomeness of our God.
Let the redeemed say so.
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