Revelation 15:4 · World English Bible
Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.
Awe is the natural weather of a heart that sees clearly, and its absence is the real disease: the cold shrug that treats the Holy One as one item among many. When wonder dries up, worship becomes a chore rattled off without a pulse.
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Awe is the natural weather of a heart that sees clearly, and its absence is the real disease: the cold shrug that treats the Holy One as one item among many. When wonder dries up, worship becomes a chore rattled off without a pulse.
The cure is to slow down and look until the awe returns, letting one honest act of God reopen the eyes. He alone is set apart, and the whole gathering of the nations is only many faces turning at last toward the single light that was always there to be seen.
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What have you stopped finding remarkable that would stun you if you saw it for the first time tonight?
He called wonder a duty, not a mood, and said the opposite of faith is taking things for granted. A person who stops being amazed has gone dull, not grown up.
He wrote that we walk under the stars with no more interest than we give a ceiling. The sky did not shrink, our attention did.
He kept turning readers back to the sheer size of what is, until their arguments about it looked small. Standing in front of it, the honest response is a long breath rather than a verdict.
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