AWE-Filled

"And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?" Job 26:14

 

The other day I was reminded of this verse while I was over at a friend's home when I saw it posted on their refrigerator. Just think about that for a moment.  All the most beautiful, powerful, and awe-filling things that we see are but the "outer fringe of his works"!  Truly amazing! Just imagine what the rest of his works look like if these are but the fringes. All this just reminding me that my view and understanding of God (however small/great) is nothing compared to how marvelously huge, and truly awesome HE is. We can't even fathom.

 

Fringes

By Shane and Shane

 

He stretches out the north over empty space/And hangs the earth on nothing/And how faint a word we even hear of Him/And yet – our eyes and ears and minds get all the candy

I sing for grace/For grace it lets me sing/And all I've ever seen or heard/Or haven't seen or heard/ It's His/There is no other/All of this is but the fringes

And these are but the fringes/And all the world hinges/On His grace and on His word/It speaks things into being/And the spoken things revealing/The glory of our God and King

I'm stumbling upon things that aren't mine/Things he spoke to life before time/Name one thing that's not/One law or thought/He taught the clay/Molded it/Behold, He called the sheep/That's why they came/Sheep! Who by grace get a peep/And make it cheap by calling it mine