FAITH CAPSULE: God is a good and extraordinarily patient God.

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.” The identity of an evil one is the lack of 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 the evidence of 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 trust in God and to constantly demonstrate confidence in the face of challenge. Ones that trust God fears God.
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) Going by the above it is safe to say it that, 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 extraordinarily patient God. He has put everything in place for us to have life in Jesus Christ and not die.
Have you ever considered the way that leads to life? It is written in 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 and ones that accept Him takes to 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. Just as another year begins to expire, understand it today that having life is not by merit but by the mercy of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to know Him and not depart from Him.