FAITH CAPSULE: True love for God is to fear Him.
Deuteronomy 6
The word of God is the work of God.
At the time of creation, God demonstrated that His word is His work when He spoke and created existence.
Also, the word of God is His command.
God alone is the Commanding commander, and there is none like Him. Among the purpose of His command is stated in Deuteronomy 6:1-3, “Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, that you may fear the LORD your God…”
The command of God is to teach all to fear Him in obedience to God.
To fear God is to love God.
The command is to teach all the fear of God by observing the word of God.
A serious student of the word of God will gain the understanding of meditating on the word to observe and do according to the word of God.
Failure to obey God is not to fear Him.
God expects all to love Him just as His word states, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” (Deuteronomy 6:5)
Sin and sinning are rooted in disobedience.
Without a doubt, sin came to be through failure to eat one tree out of varieties of trees in the Garden of Eden.
Genesis 2:16-17 records, “…the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Adam and Eve engaged in a blatant act of disobedience with no reasonable excuse but consequence.
Since the time of Adam and Eve, man continues to sin.
God wants all to love Him with all heart, souls, and all strength.
Abraham is an example of one that loved the Lord God and obeyed as was commanded by God.
Obedience to the word of God is the fear in God the creator of all.
It takes loving God with all heart to rise and depart to a strange land and not hold back.
At age seventy-five, leaving behind a comfortable environment with no child is evidence of the fear of God and obedience to the command of God. Word of God testified to the fear of Abraham in Genesis 22:12 “…Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now, I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” (Genesis 22:12)
How are you serving Him with all your love?
True love for God is to have fear for God.
Prayer for today: Ask God for that your heart will retain to obey the word of God.