~
Not Fearing God Can Result In Catastrophe ~
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 ~ “Now therefore, thus says the Lord,
the God of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Why do you commit this great evil against
yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, out of Judah,
leaving none to remain, in that you provoke Me to wrath with the works of your
hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone
to dwell, that you may cut yourselves off and be a curse and a reproach among
all the nations of the earth? Have you
forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah,
the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your
wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem? They have not been humbled,
to this day, nor have they feared; they have not walked in My law or in My
statutes that I set before you and your fathers’ Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God
of Israel: ‘Behold, I will set My face against you for catastrophe and
for cutting off all Judah’” (Jeremiah 44:7-11).
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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