Words

Quit 

This recent statement by a football player: “Quit is not in our vocabulary.”

Uh – yes, it is in your vocabulary!  You just used it!

 

Awesome – God is awesome!

Deuteronomy 7:21, You shall not be terrified of them; for the Lord your God, the great and awesome God is among you.

Deuteronomy 28:58, If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD.

Nehemiah 1:5, And I said: “I pray, Lord God of heaven, O great and awesome God, You who keep Your covenant and mercy with those who love You and observe Your commandments.

Psalm 47:2, For the Lord Most High is awesome; He is a great King over all the earth.

Now these words by Issac Watts:

How sweet and awful is the place with Christ within the doors,
while everlasting love displays the choicest of her stores.

Awful (also spelled “aweful”)

Merriam-Webster:

1. extremely disagreeable or objectionable: awful food, awful behavior, an awful experience
2. informal: exceedingly great – used as an intensive – an awful lot of money
3. inspiring awe… “the presence of Nature in all her awful loveliness” – George Eliot
4. filled with awe – deeply respectful or reverential

We should be full of awe considering God – God and God’s presence is aweful!

Thus greater than having “some awe” or “awesome” is “full awe” or “aweful”.

 

Terrible

Job 41:14, Who can open the doors of his face, With his terrible teeth all around?

Joel 2:11, For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; Who can endure it?

Merriam-Webster:

1. extremely bad such as terrible behavior, a terrible movie, a terrible smell
2. a difficult – in a terrible bind, a terrible responsibility, intense fear, terrified
3. extreme, great – a terrible disappointment

God is terrible – God is GREAT!

 

Blessing (ideas from teachings at the last GCC Ladies’ Retreat)

Proverbs 10:22, The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.

Psalm 24:5, He shall receive blessing from the Lord. 

Merriam-Webster:

1. the act or words of one that blesses – gives approval, encouragement
2. a thing conducive to happiness or welfare – My daughter is a blessing to me in my old age
3. grace said at a meal – He said the blessing before dinner

We often say we are blessed by our children, our home, our spouse, or our things and such can be true, but are we saying that those who aren’t married or don’t have children aren’t blessed?  Are we thinking that those who don’t have a nice home or nice clothes aren’t blessed?  The meaningful blessings are those that come from God through Jesus such as adoption, hope, church, His presence, etc.

Be thankful for the tangible things from God, but realize the many HUGE blessings that are yours spiritually.  True blessings are the gifts from God that give us worth – His child, a future, the Spirit, wisdom and knowledge from Jesus, understanding of His Bible, and the family of God.

WOW – aren’t we blessed!