FAITH CAPSULE: All that we need to desire is the grace to constantly and consistently fear God.
Numbers 14:1-38
It is written, “He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He also will hear their cry and save them.” (Psalm 145:19) Any man that truly knows to fear God knows what God wants and what God does not want for His children. Knowing what He wants for us will make it impossible for us to be asking or having a desire for what He does not line up in His desire for us. All that we need to desire is the grace to constantly fear Him. God alone knows all of our desire; He knows those that fear Him and He is more than capable to fulfill everyone’s desire.
Everything a man can consider as need is obtainable when we live in the fear of God. Proverbs 19:23 buttress the importance of fearing God when it states, “The fear of God leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil.” (Proverbs 19:23) Are you one that desires not to have His desire for your life? A man that presses for his own desires will get it with persistency.
Often time, getting one’s desire which is not of God leads to self-destruction. The children of Israel, coming out of bondage of over four hundred years; seeing the wondrous work of God; strongly press for their own desire that is outside of God’s desire for them. They could not let go Egypt but pressed in their asking and complaining for all kinds of food they were eating in Egypt despite the truth that Lord did not make them to have any lack. God responded and gave them their food of desire. The bible recorded, “So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them their own desire. They were not deprived of their craving; but while their food was still in their mouths, the wrath of God came against them, and slew the stoutest of them, and struck down the choice men of Israel.” (Psalm 78:29-31) Get to know it that God wants the best for you and whatever we do not receive could be because it is out of time or out of place for us. However, when we hold onto Him in fear, He will not fail in giving us what only leads to life and not to our self-destruction like that of the stoutest of the Israelites that were destroyed as mentioned in the above scriptural verse (Psalm 78:29-31). It is worthy to desire for the fear of God so we may abide in God’s satisfaction and not end up in life’s dissatisfaction which always bring evil to man. The point of this write up is for us to live a life that brings desirable good things that are encased in the fear of God. Where there is no fear of God, nothing good will move in the direction of man.
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to constantly and consistently live in the fear of His holy name.