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 It became old, outdated, and broken down.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.
Please share
on Facebook and send comments to rhepler52@gmail.com .
Thanks for
reading.
Rick
