Have We Lost Our Awe For God?

Awe n., a mixed feeling of reverence, fear, and wonder caused by something sublime.  Sublime, adj. 1. Noble; exalted; majestic.  2. Inspiring awe or admiration through grandeur, beauty, etc. (Webster’s New World Dictionary, 1968 edition)

 

Many times in my life I have used the word awesome, to describe how I felt about something. The word is an adjective describing a feeling of awe.  However, that awesome feeling waned away with time. I remember one of those times I called my new, M-50 Harley Davidson motorcycle as being awesome.  With time, that too went away.  It became old, outdated, and broken down.  Not a very good thing for something that was at one time so awesome.
 

Looking back, I realize my use of the word awesome was not the proper word to use.  The many things, events, and places I have called awesome, have lost my attention, thus removing the sense of awe I had first experienced.

Some things I should never allow to lose their awesomeness.  The love for my wife Debbie, my children, my grandchildren and my parents, to name a few, should grow instead of diminish.  Many have allowed self or selfish desires and ambitions to tarnish this awe.  We can see the product of this from the many broken families we have in our nation today.

Can you agree with me, that morally we as a nation are experiencing giant like declines in our moral thoughts?  Acts once deemed unacceptable are now protected and called good. Calling these same acts sins can have you quickly labelled a bigoted, evil and uncaring person.  Your “good” is now called “evil”. How did we lose our way? This didn’t happen overnight.  Losing our sense of awe toward God, our creator, was displaced gradually by other things in this world.  The Father of Deception, Satan, is behind it all.

In my first book, The Heart Behind the Stone: Develop a Giant Slaying Heart, the armies of God and three of David’s brothers, had forgotten God’s awesome power and strength. They ran and hid when the Philistine giant, Goliath, challenged them by his gods.  However, their youngest brother, David, driven by his awe of God, accepted the challenge of Goliath, defeated him, and encouraged the army of Israel to run after and defeat the Philistine army.

David trusted in God because he recognized the awe of God.  How did he learn this?  Could he had defeated the giant, the bear, and the lion without the acknowledgement of his awesome God?  Read the Psalms David wrote.  You can feel his awe for God in many of the verses.

I wrote of the three giants in my book, that I feel have broken our country down morally and have contributed to the losing of our awe for God.  We, including me, have allowed the things of this world and even the cares of this world to slowly diminish our eyes from seeing God as reverend and awesome.  How can we learn to see God again and be children after His own heart as David?  We can do as David did.

In the next series of post, leading up to Christmas, I would like to attempt to show what our country could be like, by believing and living the belief that our God is an awesome God.  I am going to point out the steps you and I can take to manifest the awesome power and love of God in our lives.

Please look for upcoming posts and share with your friends, family, and especially your children.  What will the next generation be like if we do not obey and live the commands God has given us?  Our children need to be reminded, Our God is an Awesome God.

 

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Thanks for reading.

Rick