#Awesomeness

This is how dictionaries define awesomeness: a quality that inspires awe. Its informal meaning: an extremely or amazingly good or impressive quality. 

It is this second definition that is now popular among cyber denizens. If you click on the hashtag #Awesomeness, posts gush over things (music, events, food, places) in a superlative way. Many of these are recorded on videos. There is even a group page on Facebook called Awesomeness. 

A dear cousin, a retired general and a self-confessed technologically challenged non-netizen, said, “I don’t need the Internet to find awesomeness. I just flip through my Bible and there I marvel at awesomeness in its super-superlative form!” 

The first two verses of our Bible (Genesis 1:1-2) shows awesomeness immediately:  

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.” 

These can never be replicated by any human invention. 

CGI (computer-generated imagery) in movies creates all kinds of awesomeness today—galaxies being reduced to smithereens and dust forming into living things. But these are make-believe. These cannot compare to an actual solar or lunar eclipse, or stars playing hide-and-seek with the clouds. Try to wake up at dawn and watch the sunrise making the sky burst with various colors.   

Awesomeness! 

Amos 5:8 paints grandeur in words, “It is the Lord who created the stars . . . He turns darkness into morning and day into night. He draws up water from the oceans and pours it down as rain on the land!” 

God gave man breath, but He takes our breath away with the awesomeness of His creation.  

Reflect and pray: 

“O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens.” (Psalm 8:1)

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