Faith Capsule: It is dwelling in the secret place of the Most High God that qualifies man to abide.
Psalm 91
The bible recorded what God saw about His creation and what God said in reaction to His creation, “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.” (Genesis 6:5-6) It is a wicked world! Imagine God was sorry that He made man. Jeremiah 17:9, buttressed, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” Lying, deception and manipulation has taken over the place of the fear of God in the heart of man. Man is clothed with lack of fear of God. Under heaven, there is no place to hide from the wickedness of man but to dwell and abide in the secret place of the Most High God. Psalmist admonished us in Psalm 91: 1-2, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in Him I will trust.” Dwelling, that is to make the secret place of Most High God a permanent place to be living not a place to be checking in and checking out. It is dwelling in the secret place of the Most High God that qualifies man to abide in the secret place of the Most High God. Is the secret place of the Most High God a dwelling place you desire?
Where is the secret place of the Most High? Psalm 25:14 identified, “The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant.” It is the fear of God that will unlock the door to the secret place of the Lord. Psalm 33:18, “The eye of the LORD is on those that fear Him, on those who hope in His mercy.” Evidently, to be under the watchful eye of God that is not visible to a naked eye is to be in a secret place. What both Psalm 25 and 33 are saying is that the fear of the Lord is what it takes to dwell in the secret place of the Lord. What does it mean to fear God? To fear the Lord is to love the Lord. Deuteronomy 30:6, “And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.” To fear the Lord is to love Him, and to love Him is to live. Obviously, those that dwell in the fear of God are in His secret place.
Prayer for today: Ask God to put His fear in your heart for you not to depart Him but to dwell in Him.