נורא (Awesome) God—and What He Is Asking Today of Our Hearts

In this episode of What God Showed Me Today, we sit in the tension between two anchor points of Scripture and prayer: Deuteronomy 10:12–13 calls us into something startlingly intimate— to walk in all God's ways, to love Him, and to serve Him with all our heart and soul. But just a few verses later (10:17), Moses describes this same God as "the great, mighty, and awesome God"—a phrase that Jewish prayer preserves in the opening of the Amidah. That word "awesome" (נורא) is not casual language. It carries the sense of a God who is beyond containment, beyond emotional grasp, beyond intellectual reduction—yet still inviting covenant intimacy. This episode explores the paradox: The God who cannot be grasped Is the same God who commands total heart-and-soul intimacy And fear of the Lord is not distance—it is alignment with the overwhelming presence of Love itself We trace how the Amidah preserves this ancient confession: "Great, Mighty, and Awesome" and how that framing actually deepens—not lessens—the call of Deuteronomy 10:12–13. What if "fear of the Lord" is not shrinking back… but stepping fully into a love so vast it overwhelms every lesser loyalty?