Most days I’m full of motivation to keep going. But just like running a marathon, there are moments and stretch’s requiring endurance and perseverance with few cheering you on. Loneliness and grief can be crushing without the grace and peace He provides during the dark moments.
Only awe of him can define in you and me a true sense of what we actually need. So many of our prayers are self-centered grocery lists of personal cravings that have no bigger agenda than to make our lives a little more comfortable. They tend to treat God more as our personal shopper than a holy and wise Father-King. Such prayers forget God’s glory and long for a greater experience of the glories of the created world. They lack fear, reverence, wonder, and worship. They’re more like pulling up the divine shopping site than bowing our knees in adoration and worship. They are motivated more by awe of ourselves and our pleasures than by a heart-rattling, satisfaction-producing awe of the Redeemer to whom we are praying.
Paul David Tripp, Awe: Why It Matters for Everything We Think, Say, and Do
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