FAITH CAPSULE: True love for God is to truthfully fear Him.
Deuteronomy 6
The word of God is the work of God. At the time of creation, God demonstrated that His word is His work when He spoke for creation to have a place. Also, the word of God is His command. God alone is the Commanding commander and there is none like Him. Among the purpose of His command is stated in Deuteronomy 6:1-3, “Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, that you may fear the LORD your God…” God’s command is to teach us to fear Him. To fear God is to love God. For the command to teach us the fear of God observing the word is to come first. A serious student of the word of God must get the understanding that meditating the word is the key to observe and do according to the word.
Failure to obey God is not to fear Him. God expects us to love Him just as it is recorded in His word, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” (Deuteronomy 6:5) Sin and sinning is rooted in disobedience. Without doubt, sin simply came to be as a result of failure not to eat of one tree out of varieties of trees in the Garden of Eden. It is written, “…the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (Genesis 2:16-17) Adam and Eve engaged a blatant act of disobedience which does not have any reasonable excuse but consequence.
Since the time of Adam and Eve, man continues to sin. God simply wants us to love Him with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our strength. Abraham loved the Lord God and obeyed as was commanded by God. It takes loving God with all heart to rise and depart to a strange land and not hold back. At age seventy five leaving behind a comfort environment, with no child, is the evidence of the fear of God and obedience to God’s command. Word of God testified Abraham’s fear in Genesis 22:12 “…Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” (Genesis 22:12) How are you serving Him with all your love? True love for God is to truthfully fear Him.
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace that your heart will retain His word to obey.