A popular Christian "Rock" song blasts over and over, "Our God is an Awesome God." "Awesome" has been the inword with Teens for a generation, it seems and covers a multitude of situations. When in doubt, say "awesome" and no one complains. Such is the limit of language when trying to describe the "Ineffable", as Thomas Aquinas would say, the indescribable.
Tha author of Psalm 135 makes an attempt that has "held up" for thousands of years:
"Praise the Lord, for the lord is good, gracious, great, high above all gods. Whatever the Lord wills is accomplished, or in the very terse Latin, "Quod voluit, fecit." Zing...right to the heart of the Truth about the Lord whose name stands forever. (Cf. Ps 135:2-6). Mystics like Sts. Gertrude the Great, Mechtild of Magdeburg, Mechtild of Hackeborn, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, in visions and exctacies experienced "The Incomprehensible" but found no words to adequately describe God. We take in and accept the stumbling words of the. Psalmist and these saints, and lift our hears, yes, in AWE of the God they present to us.
Bro. Rene
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