Awesome God

Monday, April 11, 2011 (7:56 a.m.)

Awesome God,

Talk to me about exactly that this morning, will You? About You being our awesome God.

You do have Your way about You, don’t You Lord? I ask for one thing [to learn more about You being awesome J] and You give something better.

While getting started in looking up the words here, I also saw many other things described as awesome. Places. Your glory and power. Sights. Fire. Horrors. Miracles. Your name, presence and deeds. While the list continues for several more pages, it’s at Exodus 15:11 that I stop. “Who else among the gods is like You, O Lord? Who is glorious in holiness like you – so awesome in splendor, performing such wonders?”

This verse ties perfectly to the Revelation Song the husband has been singing [and humming J] all morning. ♫Holy, Holy, Holy Is the Lord God Almighty Who was, and is, and is to come With all creation I sing: Praise to the King of Kings! You are my everything, And I will adore You…♫

Lord God, I can’t even begin to understand the scope of the plan You have for Your people. I read. I start becoming excited. I reach the point where I’m SURE “I get this” and then BAM! We’re off to somewhere else.

Reading the commentary at the bottom of the page about Your mighty miracle involving the Red Sea, I’m reminded of how quickly we tend to forget important victories and fall back into old habits of fear and whining. Even though the people of Israel had experienced such a miraculous escape, they were still unable to exercise their faith in You.

Lord. How often is that me? I so readily give in to circumstances rather than standing firm in You.

The commentary note I was reading here ended with the instruction to “see Ephesians 3:20” and once again I smiled at Your attention to the detail of our everyday lives. “Now glory be to God, who by His mighty power at work within us is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of – infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes.” You do these things for us Dearest Lord.

You want us to trust in Your awesome power. The section immediately preceding this verse is entitled “The Greatness of God’s Love”. It speaks of Paul falling to his knees and praying to You at the mere thought “of the wisdom and scope” of Your plan (v.14) “that out of His glorious, unlimited resources He will give You the mighty inner strengthening of His Holy Spirit” (16). Yes Lord. Please. That!

“And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts, living within you as you trust in Him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love; and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high His love really is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so at last you will be filled up with God Himself” (17-19).

Most Dear and Awesome God, what must it be to truly live ‘driven by Your dynamic and unlimited love’? I want that power and experience that I occasionally glimpse. Keep working in me Lord, making me into the woman of Yours that You would have me be.

I love You so very much most Awesome God. Thank You for Your plan for each of us. Thank You for Your faithfulness in never giving up on any of us. You are good. You are awesome. And I am grateful. Thank You Lord. Amen.

(643 words ~ 9:09 a.m.)