Chris' prayer: Rich Mullins' "Awesome God"

awe•some | 'ôsӘm| adj. extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring great admiration, apprehension, or fear

I have always been completely and utterly fascinated by the universe in which we live. In fact, by the definition above, I would say that I find it to be awesome. Its sheer size (though no one knows, one guess puts it currently at around 156,000,000,000 light years across) I find daunting. The number of stars I find jaw-dropping (70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 way back in 2003). Its age (13,700,000,000 years), I find overwhelming. The idea that the stars that I see on a clear night are actually from years and years ago, I find mind-boggling.

And when the sky was starless in the void of the night
He spoke into the darkness and created the light

God created all of this? And to take it a step further– We are children of that God who created all of this? And another step– and He created all of this for us? Our God is an awesome God.


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