~ Jehoshaphat Feared God ~
God
does not want His children living in fear.
“Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus
our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life
and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue”
(2 Peter 1:2-3). However,
God does want His children to have a proper respect and reverence for Him. We are told in many places in Scripture to “fear
God.”
This Week’s Passage ~ “So Jehoshaphat dwelt at
Jerusalem; and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the
mountains of Ephraim, and brought them back to the Lord God of their fathers.
Then he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of
Judah, city by city, and said to the judges, ‘Take heed to what you are doing,
for you do not judge for man but for the Lord,
who is with you in the judgment. Now
therefore, let the fear of the Lord be upon you; take care and do
it, for there is no iniquity with the Lord
our God, no partiality, nor
taking of bribes’” (2 Chronicles 19:4-7).
Fearing God Results in Salvation
~ “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God” (Hebrews
10:31). “A wise
person fears and departs from evil, but a fool rages and is self-confident”
(Proverbs 14:16).
This does not mean the Christian is to live a fearful life—but a life
which reverences God and seeks to do His will.
Fearing God Results in
Fearlessness ~ “The Lord
is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord
is the strength of my life; of whom shall
I be afraid?” (Psalm 27:1). The answer is: only God. With the gift of salvation comes
responsibility.
Fearing God Results in Witnessing ~ “Come and hear, all you who fear God,
and I will
declare what He has done for my soul” (Psalm 66:16).
~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW
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