We Need To Move Beyond Horizontal Awe To Vertical Awe

“Every created awe is meant to point you to the Creator. You are meant to be inspired and to celebrate the awesome things that come from the Creator’s hand. But as you participate and rejoice in the awesome display of creation, you must understand that these awesome things were not intended to be the ultimate. They were not made to be the stopping place and feeding station for your heart. No awesome thing in creation was meant to give you what only the Creator is able to give.

As it is true of a street sign, so it is true of every jaw-dropping, knee-weakening, silence-producing, wonder-inspiring thing in the universe.

The sign is not the thing you’re looking for. No, the sign points you to what you are looking for. So you can’t stop at the sign, for it will never deliver what the thing it is pointing to will deliver. Created awe has a purpose; it is meant to point you to the place where the awe of your heart should rest.” - Paul David Tripp. This inspired me today from Tripp’s book called AWE. We need to move beyond horizontal awe to vertical awe.

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