Our 'UNTAMED' GOd

I like to read the Scripture readings for tomorrow’s Mass in my Magnificat each evening. I also read through the meditations and lives of the saints for that day.
 
The other day, the Magnificat had a commentary on Psalm 29 that really struck me. It read: “In C. S. Lewis’ book The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the children are told of Aslan that ‘he’s not a tame lion.’ Like Aslan, our God is not a tame God. He is kind and wonderful, rich in mercy, but he is at the same time awesome in majesty. The total otherness of God inspires fear, but at the same time it inspires love and wonder in us. The fear of the Lord is not a bad thing, but is rather the appropriate response of the limited creature to the unlimited goodness of God.”
 
Just a few pages later, Professor Anthony Esolen wrote a commentary on the Now I lay me down to sleep prayer. He wrote: “The first part of the prayer is a wonderfully concentrated act of faith, hope, and love. But that comes after our initial act of adoration. We say we are prostrate before the majesty of God. That is more than a nod of the head or a bow, more even than falling to our knees. It means that we lay ourselves flat, face to the earth, giving ourselves up completely to God. Let’s not stand on our dignity here. Man, said Chesterton, is that creature who is taller when he kneels. Then he is a perfect tower when he lies prostrate before God; at least, when we say this prayer, we can let our forehead touch the floor.”
 
I was struck with our “untamed” God who is rich in mercy but also awesome in majesty. The only way we should approach God is in humility, in “giving ourselves up completely to God” as Prof. Esolen says. When we hear the powerful words of Psalm 29—The God of glory thunders. In his temply they all cry: “Glory!” The Lord sits as king for ever.—we should fall to our knees (at least spiritually) and remember, as G.K. Chesterton said, we are taller when we kneel.