AWE - Paul David Tripp

A summary of this book:

Our hearts are so easily captured by something - that's how God made us. We get so easily distracted, captivated or forgetful of the main thing. Sin threatens to distract us from the glory of our Creator. Most often we stand in awe of everything but God. Sometimes even in our serving God, we create an idol that holds our awe, and gives us a scorecard that is our momentary sense of awe, yet it never satisfies, and so we find ourselves on the treadmill of a quest for fulfilling our in-built desire for awe in fruitless pursuits. As the author states - "I wrote this book for me because I came to see that I was wired for awe, that awe of something sits at the bottom of everything I say or do. But I wasn't just wired for awe. I was wired for awe of God. No other awe satisfies the soul. No other awe can give the heart the peace, rest, and security that it seeks. I came to see that I needed to trace awe of God down to the most mundane of human decisions and activities." So that's what this book is about. The fact that God created us with a capacity for awe, a desperate hunger for awe to be fulfilled. The only awe that can fulfill that hunger though completely, is the awe of God. And so, in this book, he touches on areas that have allowed the awe of something else to dissipate or replace the awe of God. And this book helps to gently refocus our need to recapture our awe in the right places.