Awesome...

Awesome…

Awesome. From the root word awe which means overwhelming respect, reverence. Awesome is an adjective, which means it is a word that qualifies a noun. So God is qualified by the word Awesome.

Our God is an awesome God! When it comes down to it God is the only thing that it is truly AWESOME. This past weekend on our annual Top of the Mountain Ski Retreat our evangelist and worship leader helped us to realize we use the word awesome without thinking about it. We talk about how awesome our car is; we talk about awesome relationships; we talk about how awesome our sports teams are. We use the word flippantly and before long the word has lost its original meaning. Face it cars eventually wear out, relationships are not always wonderful and sports teams have good years and bad years! But our God never changes! He is God! He has always been God and He always will be God! Anything other than God that we tie the word awesome to really does not compute or compare. God is the only noun that can be qualified by the word AWESOME! I want you to prayerfully consider what I am getting ready to ask you! Can you refrain from using the word awesome to describe anything other than the Holy God we serve? Let us when we use the word awesome can we reserve it for the creator of the universe! Can we reserve it for the God that thought of us before the foundations of the world were laid? Our God…truly is an awesome God! I love you all! <><