Thursday 3rd February - Awe of God

Good evening. We have had another good day. We have gone away for a few days and it has been great to relax and spend some time with one another and reflect. We have been swimming and out for lunch and had a Tesco tea too. The place we are staying is really nice and I am continuing to feel strong physically and mentally.

I was just reading the first chapter online of a book recommended to us called 'Crazy Love'. The first chapter is about how God is allowed to become common in our lives and forget to marvel and have awe for the character of God. It gave some facts of creation to make us marvel such as there are 3000 different types of trees within one square mile of the Amazon, God created us all to laugh in different ways, coral will die if the sea temperature changes by 1 or 2 degrees and your heart generates enough pressure to squirt blood over 30 feet. It says in Psalm 19 'The heavens declare the glory of the Lord, the skies proclaim the work of His hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge'. Creation actively speaks of how awesome, mighty and powerful God is and declare HIS handiwork.

The quote that resonated most with me was one by A.W. Tozer though. He says 'the most portenous fact about any man is not what he at any given time may say or do but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like'. Our opinion of who God is shapes not just our words, actions and thoughts but our whole lives. We, and I say we as I am just as guilty need to continually remind ourselves of the character of God and what he has done for us to be in awe of the mighty God. We need to see ourselves in the light of God and realise how small we are and how big He is and worship him with humble hearts.

Verse for the day: Psalm 19 v1-2 (The rest of the Psalm is awesome too)

Prayer for the day: For our hearts to worship the Lord humbly and correctly with every fathom of our being. Praise the Lord for the world we live in, the blessings we have and the hope we profess. For continued physical recovery. For God to bless and go before all scans, meetings and results. For our families that God would be their portion, guide and strength at this time too. For The Gallagher's and a couple called the Morley's too. For all of us to have a right attitude to God.