just what U mean when U say "Awesome"

I hang round young peeps a lot and one response they often have to something (anything) is "that's awesome". Sometimes they'll even capitalize it for emphasis. Urban online dictionary says "awesome" is an overused adjective to denote something is "cool" or even "great" and it loses its meaning and becomes lame because the noun it gets associated with is just ordinary to most observers, such as "awesome pizza".

Interestingly, the word "awesome" has been around a long time. It was even used by Samson's mother hundreds of years before Christ was born. However, it was not a cultural common slang word thrown around to say something is "cool". It had a special meaning and used sparingly because of the noun it was describing.

"So the woman came and told her husband, saying, 'a man of God came to me and His countenance was like the Angel of God, very awesome to me".  Judges 13:6a

Here Jesus Himself visits a woman barren and without hope of child. He claims she will conceive and bear a child. A child that will be ordained to deliver the people from bondage. I would say this was a pretty big deal, not just cool, not just great pizza.

Maybe we should reserve the word "awesome" for things happening in our life that are orchestrated by God, not us. It is indeed awesome that God moves in our lives for His pleasure. (Philippians 2: 13)