I was really humbled this week as I started reading the book, “Crazy Love” by Francis Chan. Great book so far! In the first chapter, “stop praying,” he suggests that we should stop talking at God for a while and really take a long look at Him before speaking another word. Solomon warned us not to rush into God’s presence with words.
Ecclesiastes 5:2: “Don’t be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.”
Chan challenges believers to stand in awe of God and to have a fear of Him. In our culture, we are often slow to listen, quick to speak and quick to become angry. The fear of God isn’t there like is should be. This really was so good for me to hear, mostly because I find myself doing those very things. I love God, but there are too many times I go before Him in prayer without stopping to think about how incredibly awesome He truly is. I’m so quick to ask Him for things. Please don’t get me wrong, I know that God, as a Father, loves for us to come to Him with needs and requests, and sometimes, our requests are urgent. But as I examine my everyday life with God, I see such a need for me to stop, gaze upon and be completely undone, awestruck and captivated by Him!
Chan has this link to his website called the “Awe Factor” http://crazylovebook.com/videos_awe.html Please check it out!
It is an amazing view from space. It shows pictures of the earth, sun and stars. As the video progresses, the images move from current time to light years away until you can no longer point out our sun in the more than 350,000,000,000 galaxies. The earth becomes less than a speck of dust. It’s absolutely incredible! God’s creation is “Ginormous” and so is He. I am completely humbled at the fact that space is so big and that our scientists are continually commenting on how much bigger it is than previously thought. Yet the universe’s Creator cares about this little planet. The one that seems so big to us, but looks like nothing in comparison to His cosmos. What’s even more awesome, He cares about and loves us. That leaves me speechless. The Psalmist writes:
“O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.
You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet: all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!” Psalm 8
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