FAITH CAPSULE: Do you desire the fear of God to take over your life?
Psalm 34
God is faithful to deliver what He promised for one who will seek Him diligently.
One seeking God with diligence is with the character of such who fears Him.
Nothing can be better than having the fear of God reigning in the life of one.
When the fear of God takes its rightful place, walking fully in the righteousness of God will make one live in heaven on earth.
The Psalmist states, “The angel of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him and delivers them.” (Psalm 34:7)
In this world of wickedness, what could be better than having the untouchable force surrounding one who fears God?
King David states in Psalm 34:9, “Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him.”
David talked from real-life experience, not from what he had not experienced.
Indeed, God is good with truth to His word.
Do you have the kind of fear that it takes to live in heaven on earth?
No one is born with the fear of God.
God repeatedly asked for giving to His word, hearing, and learning to become one with His fear.
Deuteronomy 31:12-13 records, “Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the LORD your God and carefully observe all the words of this law, and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.”
Living to fear God is not limited to no one but for all.
Also, it is not limited to a time in the history of creation.
As an acclaimed believer in the word of God, do you have to introduce yourself as one who fears God, or does your approach to life always introduce you as one who fears God?
Honestly, one with the fear God the fear of God needs no introduction to become identified as one who fears God.
Do you desire the fear of God to take over your life?
One with the desire to fear God should give oneself to studying and gaining more understanding of the Lord God as documented in the pages of the Bible.
Determination to know His fear is not enough, but with desire, God will deposit His fear in you.
He promised in Jeremiah 32:40, “…I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.” He is faithful to deliver what He promised.
God is a good God.
Have the desire to fear God and God in His goodness and mercy, He will recognize the desire one that is before Him.
Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled to fear God, and His fear will reign and overwhelm your life in the name of Jesus.