Do You Stand In Awe? Job 25:2

“Dominion and awe belong to Him, Who establishes peace in His heights.” Job 25:2 God is so amazing! The sad thing is instead of standing in Awe of God, it seems as if we are just getting so complacent. Yesterday we baptized 8 people at FBC and it was a great celebration. We celebrated because God got a hold of 8 people’s hearts and forever changed their lives. They were coming to be baptized because they had accepted and made Jesus Christ their Lord and Savior and they wanted to make it a public announcement. This is not to say that they will not face struggles and hurts and trials but we can say for certain that they will not have to face eternity in Hell separated from God because they realized they were in need of a Savior, and responded to God’s call into their life and accepted His son. How amazing is that, but we take it for granted. Think about your life, think about your thoughts, your behaviors, all the ways in which YOU are not holy, all the ways in which you are a sinful person that is hostile to the gospel, yet God said I love you so I am going to give over my son for the ransom of many, for the ransom of YOU. But not only that he allowed us to live and breath until we could respond to what He did. That is what amazes me the most about God, how patient He was(and is) with me and how much He never gave(or gives) up on me even though I was(am) so lost in sin. Let me be personal for a minute so I can tell you what I mean. God protected me from a certain death of eternity separated from Him in Hell on many occasions before I was saved. I remember one time in particular; I was partying with my family and had gotten really intoxicated. My brother in law decided that the best thing to do while drunk was to get in to an old pickup truck and go off-roading. So that is what we did and as we were going along we blew two tires on the truck and we were just riding on rims. But that wasn’t going to stop us from being idiots and we decided to ride down a train track. As we were riding down that train track, sparks were just flying as we were riding rim on rail and I decided to stick my head out the window so I could yell and scream. I did this for about 3 or 4 minutes and for some reason I stopped and I was in the process of rolling up my window and before I could even get the window up, a sign hit the mirror and pushed it into the window blowing the window that I was rolling up out, splattering glass all over me. If I kept my head out the window 5 seconds longer I would have been decapitated by this sign that I did not see. What made me stop yelling out the window and stick my head back in. Many will say coincidence but I say it was Gods greatness. God saved me that day from a death separated from Him in hell, and I did not deserve to be saved but yet He still saved me. I did not deserve and still do not deserve the grace that God has shown me, yet He keeps showing it. I did not deserve the protection He gave me when I was living to fulfill the sinful desires of this world yet He protected me. I did not deserve the grace to be saved the day our daughter died ; yet He showed me it. I did not deserve the call to be a pastor, yet He called me and equipped me. The reality is when we really think about it we have so much to be amazed about with God. So much to be in AWE about. This week I encourage you remember all that God has done for you before and even after you have been saved. And as you do stand amazed and stand in awe of what a great God we have.