The Awe of God

"Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the Lord your God and have no awe of me," declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
- Jeremiah 2:19b

So often I rush to God with many words without even considering the weight of His greatness and glory. I speak to Him while failing to recognize His perfect holiness, His vast eternity, His intimidating omniscience, His overwhelming omnipotence, or His exact and consistent righteousness. Wherever I stand, I stand on holy ground because this indescribable God and King is everywhere. And yet, I find myself just like the Israelites of Jeremiah's time having no awe of God. Why, in light of who God truly is, is this?! It is most certainly because of my sin, namely my pride. Forsaking "the spring of living water" for the broken cisterns of busyness, performance, comfort, and endless other idols causes me to not see God for who He truly is. I know that I am not alone. Many other Christians also do this daily by approaching and treating God as something that He is not.

But praise be to God that He is also abounding in mercy, love, and grace! His mercies are new each morning! God's love is beyond measure! His grace covers all of our transgressions! He is endlessly and relentlessly pursuing us and by His Spirit renewing our hearts and minds to see Him in the glory that He has had since before time existed. He draws us with intense passion to Himself so that we may know Him truly and intimately. However, my question is, do we pursue God? Is it evident in our lives that we want Christ, the person? Do we love Him? Do we set up our lives to show the world that we love Christ or rather love ourselves? Do we love others? Do we serve others? If we grew in our fear of the Lord and began, by grace through the Holy Spirit, to see Jesus for who He truly is, I believe that we would live our lives very differently. Time is short.

"Whoever acknowledges me (Jesus) before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven."
- Matthew 10:32-33