FAITH CAPSULE: To live a life with the fear of God is to be humble and obedient to God continually.
Deuteronomy 4
Today, many no longer fear God with their heart but with the mouth. Unfortunately, one who does not understand the fear of God does not know God.
Proverbs 2:5 buttresses: “Then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.”
Is it possible that your selfishness has closed you off from being mindful of God and from knowing God, and from living for the glory of God?
A selfish heart that is not mindful of God is bound to be far from God.
Not knowing God is foolishness.
To live life, do not be fooled; it is foolish to say there is no God.
Proverbs 14:1 identifies, “The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God.” They are corrupt; they have done abominable works; there is none who does good.”
As self-minded, you are not with the fear of God, but you have displaced God in your life, the automatic route into the path of eternal damnation.
No one is born to this world with the knowledge to fear God.
The knowledge to fear God comes from learning in the word of God.
Deuteronomy 31:12-13 buttresses the need to learn and fear God saying,“Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the LORD your God and carefully observe all the words of this law, “and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.”
To live a life with the fear of God is to be humble and obedient to God continually.
Without humility, obedience is not possible.
Philippians 2:8 records of Jesus, “…humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.”
The humble will fear God.
Do you fear God indeed and in truth?
To be lost from the word of God is to lose the rightful position in God.
Pray for the fear of God in your life.
Jeremiah 32:39 is the reason to ask for the fear of God, which 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.”
Do not be deceived, but fear God from the depth of your heart.
God is true to His word.
Ask, and it shall be given to you.
Today, search yourself to know your stand in the way you live life.
Living a life that is all about you is evidence of selfishness.
Come out of selfishness; live for God.
It is not right to live a selfish life.
Selfishness can be unconscious and lead to self-destruction.
Live life for God, not for yourself.
Prayer for today: Pray before God to enable you to live a life for His glory.