Orange Moon Friday, March 27, 2026 “Awed and Amazed”

The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe

"Awed and Amazed" 

    

     Awed and amazed.  One cannot know God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ without realizing we can know and understand some about Him.  We can also know more as we seek to "grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (II Corinthians 3:18).  However, we can never begin to know all.  "His greatness is unsearchable" (Psalm 145:3).  Thus, "awed and amazed" serves as a primary response and sense regarding the Lord we know, but whom we can never fully know.

    This will forever be true.  Eternity will not allow full discovery of the glory and wonder.  This especially applies to God's character.  "The love of Christ passeth knowledge" (Ephesians 3:19).  Regardless of how far we venture into the shoreless ocean of our Lord's fundamental nature of devotion to others, the blessedness we discover will promise far - infinitely far - more to come.  Seven times, the simple phrase, "the Lord is good," appears in Scripture.  A most simple declaration, portending of eternally growing awe and amazement.

    And in this day.  Even in our present lifetime lived in a fallen world, the Psalmist declares, "the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord" (Psalm 33:5).  For born again believers in Christ, such glory can be known on bright, shining mountaintops, in dark valleys, and in the mundane experiences of everyday life.  God is indeed that awe inspiring and amazing.  He is that good and great.  He is that present and involved.  He is that able and willing.  He is indeed that Himself.  "The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works" (Psalm 145:9).  This we must believe, first because it is true, and then, because our experience of God's lovingkindness and grace must be realized and affirmed by faith.  This will often greatly bless us in pleasant experience, and it will often greatly challenge us in painful times.  

    If we could speak to the martyrs, those who gave the last full measure of devotion to the glory and will of God, what might they tell us about His goodness known in their sacrifice?  Surely they would testify they knew such glory in their departure from this world more than at any other time in their lives.  They would tell us the Lord met them on their cross, or as the blade and the pyre delivered them from the present world.  They would also tell us something we must know about whatever sacrifices for Christ to which God calls us.  Namely, we must expect the goodness of God in all things, in every blessing, contingency, and exigency.  We must anticipate awe and amazement.  "My expectation is from Him" (Psalm 62:5).  The goodness will be there, as it was with the martyrs.  Whether we know it or not hinges much on whether we  believe our Lord to be, again, that awe inspiring and amazing, that good and great, that present and involved, that able and willing, and that Himself.  He is, and will find Him so as we remember and affirm the wonder of His infinite goodness and greatness.  

"I will speak of the glorious honor of Thy majesty, and of Thy wondrous works."

 (Psalm 145:5)

Weekly Memory Verse 

   He that is entered into His rest, he hath ceased from His own works, as God did from His.

 (Hebrews 4:10)

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