What an Awesome God.

At our church music practice on Wednesday, I learnt a new song. I’ve sung and played ‘Our God is an awesome God’ many times before. This re-working of it by Phil Wickham was new to me. We shall be singing it in church this morning…

God is great, Give Him all the praise
Hallelujah, Name above all Names
Fire in His eyes, Healing in His veins
Everywhere His glory on display

Take a look at those stars, He can Name them all
Before His throne every knee falls
The demons have to run, The angels have to praise
Even the wind and waves obey

Our God is an awesome God
He reigns from heaven above
With wisdom power and love
Our God is an awesome God
In my ordinary day-to-day living of people, duties and stuff I lose sight of God’s greatness – the spiritual power, the wise creator, the loving king. I try to understand… The God of the heavens and the earth, principalities and powers. It’s beyond me… Awesome!

And even when I ran, He didn’t run away
He came and put death back in its place
Friday on a cross, Broken for my shame
Sunday morning rose up from that grave

Take a look at those scars on His hands and feet
He saved our souls for eternity
Worthy is the Lamb, Glory to the King
Oh, let all the saints and the angels sing
This isn’t an awesome God that’s impersonal and distant. It’s about a God who cares for the individual, understands failure, empathises with pain. It’s the Jesus of Good Friday, death, sacrifice and forgiveness; it’s the Jesus of Easter Sunday, life, salvation and infinite possibilities. Awesome, now.

Eyes on the Sky, There will be a day
He will come and wipe our tears away
No more fear, No more pain
No more sorrow sin or shame

The King is coming back again
A reign of love that will never end
For everything You’ve done, And everything You do
And everything You are I’ll sing to you

My God You’re an awesome God
You’re great in all You do I’m made to worship You
My God You’re an awesome God
We look forward with certain hope. Present guilt, fear, pain and conflict, will end. There will be joyful resolution, peaceful restoration and loving relationships. We shall see and appreciate more fully that ‘Our God is an Awesome God’.