FAITH CAPSULE: To fear God is to love God; to love God is to serve God; to serve God is to fully obey God.
Exodus 23: 20-33
God spoke to the children of Israel in Exodus 23:27, “I will send My fear before you, I will cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you.” What God says to one speaks to all. With the fear of God ahead on every journey of man’s life, confidence will be in place to keep one’s feet from being caught. (Proverb 3:26) Deuteronomy 10:12 states, “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.” When the fear of God goes before us, we shall know to walk in all His ways and not in our own ways.
Walking in the ways of God is to love the Lord God. To love the Lord God is to serve Him. It can be accepted that what the word is saying, one cannot love Him when there is no fear for Him. Loving God, serving God and fearing God is obeying the commands of God. Obeying God fully is what places a believer in a position of pleasing God. Jesus said in John 8:29, “And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.”
What is it that is denying man from having the father always? Is it the inability to fear Him? The more one grows in faith the more one understands and know to fear in every step one takes in the journey of life. We are made to understand in Hebrews 11:6, “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” If without faith it is impossible to please Him, with faith it is absolutely possible to please Him. Absolutely, no one is born into the world with faith. Also it is true that no one have to look for faith in the store to have it, but it is what one have to seek for before it comes. Romans 10:17, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Are you one that heard the word faith but yet faith does not have its place in you to fear God? What the word is saying is about hearing, hearing, hearing and hearing. It is not for a time or two but it is of consistence and continuity. When there is no failure in hearing, faith will pass you on to fearing God and having His fear go before you.
Prayer for today:Ask that His fear becomes your garment.