FAITH CAPSULE: What kind of a believer are you?

Ecclesiastes 8

Are you searching for yourself to know if you are a believer or an unbelieving believer?
An unbelieving believer is conversant in the word of God, carrying the word in the head but not in the heart.
An unbelieving believer is constant in the gathering before God but not with the character of a believer.
One telling minute lie or telling a big-time lie is not different before God.
A liar is a deceiver or a manipulator that does not have a place before God, not a believer but an unbelieving believer. 
God hears and sees all.
All can hide from man, but nothing can hide from God.
2 Chronicles 16:9 points out, “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.”
God sees all and will not oversee the sins of all. 
Before God, King David could not hide his sin against Uriah.
God responded to the sin of David through Prophet Nathan, “For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun.” (2 Samuel 12:12)
What kind of a believer are you?
Sin and sinning consciously or unconsciously is wickedness before God.
Wickedness is evil.
Are you an unbelieving believer, claiming as a believer, with no experience of the consequence of sin and sinning before God?
God does not oversee sin and sinning.
Ecclesiastes 8:12-13 records how God reacts to evil, “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. 12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. 13 But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.”
To be a believer is evidence of the fear of God.
Let the fear of God occupy your heart.
Anyone with one eye sets on God and a second eye on man will not see God, not gain His attention. It also means that one cannot look up to heaven with one eye and set the second eye on the world is not possible to gain from above.
Be a believer that allows the heart to become occupied by the fear of God.
With desire, not just determination, God shall deposit desire to become one.  
With the desire to fear God, ask for the word of God to be established in your life.
The word of God states, “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. 40 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 32:39-40)

Prayer for today: Ask to be a believer that fears God.