Tour a beautiful home, check out the curves on an exotic car, hold one-of-a-kind diamond jewelry, taste a scrumptious meal, and people will react with one word: Awesome! No doubt, some things may be difficult to describe or worthy of one-word adjectives. However, this overused word isn’t used correctly.
The term was coined for one purpose: to describe God.
Awesome, describes an indescribable God, an incomparable God, a being above all beings, it measures an immeasurable grace. Awesome begins to identify the limitless characteristics of the only loving God.
When Someone lays His life for yours, when that Someone is Jesus and He takes your place on the cross, when He took the nails for you, when He took your guilt and exchanged it for His innocence, when He took the weight of your sins and traded it for His sinless life, you can begin to see His Awesomeness. It’s much more valuable than a car which can take you nowhere in the horrors of hell. It’s worth more than an expensive watch in a doomed eternity. How wonderful will your clothing be, or the senseless toys you dropped your money on where there’s no escape? Do you think anything will matter there? No, it won’t.
Only One Person made a way into the afterlife including hell. Only One Person made a way out of it and took the captives out (Ephesians 4:8). Only Jesus, the Eternal God, gets to wear the attire with the label AWESOME for all to see. Only His crown of thorns, rusted 5” nails and disfigured body perfectly describes absolute beauty and love fit for the King of kings.
God Bless,
Blessed Good Friday
Sam
Finding Laughter In Difficult Times
My life experiences in the good times and in very difficult times will hopefully inspire, encourage, and motivate others to take time to laugh, reflect, and seek God when difficulties in life arise.