reverential thoughts of God’s greatness

I don't blog it as often as I should, but I so enjoy our 'Owen-out-loud' sessions each week. More ofetn than not we come away challenged and made to think that bit deeper about our God and ourselves than we would normally in our light and fluffy culture.
Last week was excellent as we thought of the use we must make of reverential thoughts of the inconceivable God of awe and wonder that will surely help us overcome sin and temptation.
Owen writes:

We are dull and slow of heart to receive the things that are in the word revealed; God, by our infirmity and weakness, keeping us in continual dependence on him for teachings and revelations of himself out of his word, never in this world bringing any soul to the utmost of what is from the word to be made out and discovered—so that although the way of revelation in the gospel be clear and evident, yet we know little of the things themselves that are revealed. Let us, then, revive the use and intention of this consideration: will not a due apprehension of this inconceivable greatness of God, and that infinite distance wherein we stand from him, fill the soul with a holy and awful fear of him, so as to keep it in a frame unsuited to the thriving or flourishing of any lust whatsoever? Let the soul be continually wonted to reverential thoughts of God’s greatness and omnipresence, and it will be much upon its watch as to any undue deportments. Consider him with whom you have to do—even “our God is a consuming fire” [Heb. 12:29]—and in your greatest abashments at his presence and eye, know that your very nature is too narrow to bear apprehensions suitable to his essential glory.
(p.118)