We need to elevate our vocabulary when it comes to God and the things about His nature and His Kingdom.
I was convicted of this a few years ago. I came home from church and was watching an NFL game on a Sunday afternoon, when a receiver made an amazingly acrobatic catch for a touchdown. I jumped off the couch and shouted, “That. Was. Awesome!!
Immediately the Holy Spirit brought something to my mind. “When you were worshiping at church this morning,” He gently reminded me, “didn’t you say how awesome God was? Is He as awesome as that catch?”
Right then and there I decided that I needed to be more careful of my vocabulary. I want to reserve words for God that I used nowhere else. Theologians do it all the time: creating new words to try to capture the majesty, omnipotence, and mind-blowing-vocabulary-defying greatness of Almighty God.
I’m certainly not perfect at this, but I’m working on it.
I was reminded of this again when I read these words from Charles Spurgeon:
“My Master has riches
beyond the count of arithmetic,
the measurement of reason,
the dream of imagination,
or the eloquence of words.
They are unsearchable!
You may look,
and study,
and weigh,
but Jesus is a greater Savior
than you think Him to be
when your thoughts are at the greatest.
My Lord is more ready to pardon
than you to sin,
more able to forgive
than you to transgress.
My Master is more willing to supply your wants
than you are to confess them.
Never tolerate low thoughts of my Lord Jesus.”
Craig T. Owens 