Monday, July 28, 2008
Awesome!
The Lord Most High is awesome; He is a great King over all the earth. — Psalm 47:2
It’s an often-used word, and we hear it in the most unusual contexts. It’s the word awesome.
My 9-year-old grandson Josh and I were playing with a radio-controlled racecar set on the living room floor. Several times he would say, “awesome!”
On another occasion, as my wife and I were leaving a restaurant, the manager, who was standing by the door, asked, “How was everything, folks?” “Fine,” I replied. “Awesome!” he said.
These two occasions set me to thinking: While it’s fun to play with my grandson and to enjoy a meal at a restaurant, are these experiences really awesome? So I consulted Mr. Webster’s unabridged dictionary. The primary definition lists awesome as “deeply reverent,” “dreadful,” “awful.” I remembered the time that I stood on the south rim of the Grand Canyon.
That was truly an awesome experience.
Then I thought of a more awe-inspiring reality still. It’s knowing the Creator and Sustainer of the entire universe. No wonder the psalmist wrote, “The Lord Most High is awesome” (Ps. 47:2).
The next time we hear the word awesome, may it remind us of our great God, who truly is awesome! — Dennis De Haan
God of everlasting glory,
Filling earth and sky,
Everywhere Thy wonders open
To our searching eye. — Peterson
READ: Psalm 47
Nothing is more awesome than to know God.