FAITH CAPSULE: What one knows and understands will determine how far one goes with God.
Deuteronomy 10
What one claims to know and not understand is the evidence of knowing about.
Many who claim to know God do not understand what God wants.
What is it that God wants?
What God said to one speaks to all.
What God requires from the Israelites speaks to all.
Deuteronomy 10:12 record: “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.”
All that God requires is rooted in having the fear of God.
One who fears God walks in His ways, loves, and serves God diligently.
Do you fear God?
No one is born with the fear of God.
Determination is not enough to fear God, but one who desires to fear God shall experience God, who deposits all it takes to fear Him.
Jeremiah records the prayer to ask for the fear of God.
Jeremiah 32:38-40 records “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.”
Fear God to be able to live for God.
Without doubt, when there is no fear of God, it is not possible to walk in His ways, love and serve Him diligently.
To fear God is evidence of obedience 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 will reign and rule your life.
One who fears God is bound to have faith.
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.
Fear God, not just have faith, but be a faith-full believer.
Claiming to know about faith does not make one faithful.
Get to know God to understand as a faithful one.
Pray with a desire to be what God calls all to be when He made all.
What does God want from all? 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.
Today, come out of self-deception and pay attention by listening to the word of God.
Live life for the glory of God.
Prayer for today: Ask God in His mercy to enable you to fear Him.