FAITH CAPSULE: Man cannot love God when man lacks His fear.
Deuteronomy 10
Psalmist declared, “O Lord my God, You are very great: You are clothed with honor and majesty, who cover Yourself with light as with a garment, who stretch out the heavens like a curtain He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters, who makes the clouds His chariot, who walks on the wings of the wind, Who makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flame of fire.” (Psalm 104:1-4) The declaration of the psalmist is enough for every
man to greatly fear God for His awesomeness. Do you fear God for Who He is? 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. 28 And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you.” With the fear of God ahead in every journey of life, confidence will be in place to keep man’s feet from being caught. (Proverb 3:26) Deuteronomy 10:12, “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 man, man will know to walk in all His ways. Walking in the way of God is to love the Lord God. To love the Lord God is to serve Him. Evidently, one cannot love Him when the fear of Him is not in man.
Without the love of God it is not possible to serve Him. Ones who fear God are in position to please 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 holding down from having the father with you always? Is it the inability to fear Him? The more you grow in faith the more you know to fear Him and have His fear to go before you in every step 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. Faith is not what you but in the store, faith is what comes when man seeks for it. Romans 10:17, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” You might have heard the word sometimes ago but yet faith is not having its place for you to fear Him enough.
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to fear Him.