Glorious, Awesome God

This morning I had "Awesome God" stuck in my head.  "Our God is an awesome God, He reigns from heaven above with wisdom, power, and love:  our God is an awesome God."  I could hear an orchestra playing along, a symphony of praise raising up to God in heaven.  Like cannons were used in the recording of the 1812 Overture, I imagined howitzers firing off at the crescendo.  I wonder:  do the angels sing songs written by men?  If I could imitate the songs of angels I certainly would!  A song should never fire us up more than our excitement concerning the God of whom we sing.

How awesome is our God!  He has created the universe with a word, at whose face the world will flee.  In Rev. 20:11 we read, "Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them."  Earth and heaven cannot hide from God, and neither can those who inhabitant them.  The power of earthly elements are nothing compared to the power and might of the God followers of Jesus Christ serve.  He is God, and there is no other.  Even the wind and waves obey Him.  This is a God worthy not only of songs but of fear and much trembling from His subjects.  If you shudder at the thought of being cornered by a thug in an alley or a fearsome beast in the woods, tremble before God!

Few things make us tremble these days.  We are happy and content with a far-off god, a god who involves himself in our lives at our convenience according to our plan, a god we can manipulate and control.  But the Creator and Ruler of all that is made is no such god:  He is an awesome God!  He is the over and above all One.  Isaiah 55:8-9 says, "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways," says the Lord. [9] "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts."  If we think highly of ourselves, we will have a low view of God.

1 Chron. 16:28-35 reads, "Give to the Lord, O families of the peoples, give to the Lord glory and strength. [29] Give to the Lord the glory due His name; bring an offering, and come before Him. Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness! [30] Tremble before Him, all the earth.  The world also is firmly established, it shall not be moved. [31] Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; and let them say among the nations, "The Lord reigns." [32] Let the sea roar, and all its fullness; let the field rejoice, and all that is in it. [33] Then the trees of the woods shall rejoice before the Lord, for He is coming to judge the earth. [34] Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!  For His mercy endures forever."  May we be moved to praise such a glorious God, whose reign is from everlasting to everlasting.  Such praise is due Him by us.