FAITH CAPSULE: To fear God, to love God is rooted in faith.
Psalm 139
Through the Bible, it is clear that to FEAR God is to LOVE God. One that fears God is one that loves God. God treasures it when one fears Him. (Isaiah 33:6) What does God want from all? Deuteronomy 10:12 identified God’s requirement from all: “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.” To fear God is to love God. Any man without the fear of God does not love God to follow God and to seek God diligently. Seeking God diligently is to seek Him with all heart and with all soul to walk His ways. God’s word spoke to the Israelites, what He said speaks to all man saying, “They shall be My people, and I will be their God; then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.”(Jeremiah 32:38-40) For all man’s goodness, God wants all to fear Him.
God is a good God. It is a must to fear God to live life for His glory
Fear God, love God to be obedient to His word. 1 Samuel 12:14 admonished, “If you fear the Lord and serve Him and obey His voice, and do not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then both you and the king who reigns over you will continue following the Lord your God.” Allow the fear of God to reign and rule your life. To fear God, to love God is rooted in faith. Do you have faith? Faith comes by hearing and hearing by God’s word (Romans 10:17) if you do not have faith it is not possible to fear or love God.
Are you having faith, or you are one that is faithful?
One’s claim to know about faith does not make one faithful, it is one that knows faith that makes one faithful.
Pray with a desire to be what God calls all man to be when He made you.
What did God make us be for Him? Psalm 139:14 of David testified what God made all to be: “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.”
If you are faithful you will be FEARFUL to live life answering as fearfully creation of God.
Be faithful with fear and love to live as fearfully and wonderfully creation of God. Fear God and love God to seek God diligently, to seek Him with all heart and with all soul to walk His ways. Today, come out of self-deception pay attention by listening to the word of God. Live life for God’s glory!
Prayer for today: Ask God that your faith will not fail.