{"id":21251,"date":"2017-01-03T00:10:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T08:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lccredding.com\/lcc\/?p=9799"},"modified":"2017-01-03T00:10:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T08:10:44","slug":"january-3-2017-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/2017\/01\/03\/january-3-2017-2\/","title":{"rendered":"January 3, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201c\u2026And I have put My words in your mouth\u2026\u201d<\/em> Isaiah 51:16a<\/span><\/p>\n

Cultivating Awe and Reverence for God, Day 3<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

Mere Words<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Trying to write about cultivating awe and reverence for God feels like putting a drop of water into a pool and looking down to see if it made a difference.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are no words adequate to explain Him. Nothing I say will add to Him or give you a completely accurate picture of Him. It feels like my words, though my intention is to magnify Him, will only diminish Him because they are never big enough. My language skills are not on a heavenly scale. I do not have the ability of a Master Author.<\/span><\/p>\n

We can watch a video of a famous, eloquent, powerful, godly man give testimony to Who God is, and we are so moved in our souls. The backgrounder music plays with our senses, enhancing the speaker\u2019s words\u2014now loud and majestic, now soft and humble\u2014and we are right there with him in our hearts and minds. It is wonderful; it is sunrises and sunsets, mountains and spring flowers, ocean depths and wonder for the soul. We walk away with that awe and reverence for God we should always hold within us.<\/span><\/p>\n

But take away the music and the microphone, and what is left? Take away the images of the universe, the stars and planets, and other mighty shows of God\u2019s power, and what remains? Only words. Lowly, common words that do not seem to befit nor describe the Creator.<\/span><\/p>\n

To put it simplistically, words is all we have for writing. It\u2019ll never be enough. We can sit all day and think and ponder and meditate on how to make something bigger and more and better with our words, but we will fall short every time when trying to write of God. If we could add a nuance, a facial expression, an emphatic voice\u2014some backgrounder music, so to speak\u2014then perhaps the reader could feel what the writer feels. Alas, all we have is words.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am comforted that the Master Author used words\u2014but what words He used! He used only words to write the Book of all books. Only words to write that mighty love letter to each of us that is somehow personal, as if written only for one person. Only words conveyed the entire plan of the universe from beginning to end, and beyond the beginning, and beyond the end. Only words told us how to live so that we will live with Him. Only words told us what awaits us for eternity. Only words explain everything we need to know.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even the life of Jesus, the Living Word, has been put into words for us to read. But thanks be to God\u2014there is another dimension to the words. They don\u2019t just sit on a page waiting to be discovered. It is something we can\u2019t see but we can surely feel and know. It\u2014He\u2014is the Holy Spirit moving among the words so that we can find and discover, grasp and understand. He makes the words real, so that the life in them is our reality. Haven\u2019t we all read a passage and said, \u201cHe put that there just for me. It speaks to exactly what I am going through.\u201d We live and move and breathe right in that place. He is present in His active, living Word.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFather, grant that we may look beyond mere mortal attempts to create awe and reverence for You. Enable us by Your Holy Spirit. Amen.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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