FAITH CAPSULE: Know to live in the fear of God.
Deuteronomy 10
One who knows about God will not know God for His expectation from His creation.
Do you know God for what He wants from you?
What God says to one speaks to all.
Deuteronomy 10:12 identifies what God requires from all, not just from the Israelites, stating: “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Fear God, walk in His ways, love, and serve God diligently.
Do you fear God?
Psalm 96:4 informs all why to fear God: “For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.”
To fear God will be able to keep His command.
Deuteronomy 6:2 records, “that you may fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you,”
To fear God is to do according to His command.
Hebrews 11:7 states, “By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household”
One who fears God will seek God diligently with all heart and with all soul to walk in His ways.
God specifically demands to fear Him, speaking, “They shall be My people, and I will be their God; then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.” (Jeremiah 32:38-40)
God wants from all is to fear Him, to be able to live for the glory of God.
God is a good God.
To fear will love God to be obedient to His word. 1 Samuel 12:14 admonishes, “If you fear the Lord and serve Him and obey His voice, and do not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then both you and the king who reigns over you will continue following the Lord your God.” Have the desire that the fear of God reign and rule your life.
Do you have faith?
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17) Without faith, it is not possible to fear or love God.
Do not just have faith, but be a faith-full believer.
Claiming to know about faith does not make one faithful.
Psalm 139:14 of David testifies, “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.”
One who fears God walks in His ways, loves, and serves God diligently to live for God.
Prayer for today: Ask God in His mercy to enable you to fear Him.