THE FEAR OF GOD
Job 1:6-20

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all. (Ecclesiastes 12:13) In every increasing or decreasing matter that can rise against man, the fear of God is all that man needs to prevail and overcome. Job prevailed because he fear God and God testified when Satan came up. “Then the LORD said to Satan, “From where do you come?” So Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.” Then the LORD said to Satan, have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?”” The testimony points to the fact that the business of Satan is to come and witness against every believer. God testified on behalf of Job as a blameless and upright man. Job was blameless and upright because of the fear of God in his life. By being able to fear God, he was a man that shunned evil. The fear of God was the garment in the life of Job. When Satan comes to accuse you, will you be found standing for God? Job 1:9, “So Satan answered the LORD and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing? Have you not made a hedge around him around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.” Satan’s headache concerning Job was the fact that Job feared God. The wisdom that is rooted in the fear of God has turned everything in the life of Job into blessing and Satan must have tried to destroy Job’s entire blessing before actually showing up in the gathering of the children of God. The fear of the God that elevated Job also built an impenetrable hedge around all the blessings in the life of Job. How are you living your life under heaven? Do you realize that all the blessings of God in your life need to be protected by a hedge that is impenetrable to any force of the wicked? Satan is real and he is all out to steal, kill and destroy. You do have a need to constantly protect all that the Lord has blessed you with by living a life that is embedded in the fear of God. Job proved that Satan was wrong and that the Lord was right in His testimony. How will you protect the hedge around your blessings? Fear God and evil will not overcome you.

Prayer for today: O Lord my God, I ask for a heart to fear You. Allow the fear of Your Holy name to reign and rule my life in Jesus’ name.