LET ME NOT DEPART FROM YOU LORD
Proverbs 9

Proverbs 8:13, “The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way and the perverse mouth I hate.” Indeed, the identity of an evil one is to have no fear of God. How much of His fear do you carry in your life? The fear of God is way of life. “In the fear of the LORD there is strong confidence, and His children will have a place of refuge.” (Proverb 14:26) Confidence: to have a full trust; belief in the power of God or reliability on what God can do. Confidence is rooted in how we fear God. God is indeed a refuge; a strong and might tower for the ones who believe in Him. To fear God is to believe in God and to fear God is to serve Him. Search your heart and identify if the fear of God is actually in you. “The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to turn one away from the snares of death.” (Proverb 14:27) Evidently, not having the fear of the Lord is to be a living dead. How can a creature not fear His Creator? How often have you been in a creative position, but not having the needed patience, destroyed your creation to re-create because it did not come out the way you intended for it to come out? God is a good and exceedingly patient God who put everything in place for us not to die, but rather to have life in Jesus Christ. It is good to actually consider the way that leads to life. Proverbs 19:23, “The fear of the LORD leads to life, And he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil.” There are different ways of living life but the way of God is to abide in satisfaction where lack is strange and the evil one is constantly being denied. Jesus Christ made us to realize that He is the only way to life when He stated in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” The only way is Jesus because inhabited in Him and to the ones that accept Him is the good way, truth and life. By this virtue, it can be concluded that it is wisdom to fear God and it is not enough to celebrate Him when there is no fear of Him. Proverbs 9: 10, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.” Only conscious foolish ones and unconscious foolish ones will want to leave life while living outside of the fear of God.
Prayer for today: Do not turn away from doing me good O Lord. I ask that You plant Your fear in my life so that I will not depart from You.