Reverence and Worship

Proverbs 10:27
27The reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord prolongs one's days, but the years of the wicked shall be made short.

Fear of the Lord.
I remember 6 years ago, when I first started to seek the Lord. I kept hearing the term; Fear the Lord. What is that, I thought. Later, a few of my friends and I spent hours searching through the Bible to answer this question. Now, it is easier. I just went to www.biblegateway.com and searched Fear in the Amplified Bible and got 485 results. Most of them are about Fearing (reverently) the Lord. I have spent many hours learning what this powerful message is saying. It is a part of my every being. My brain may not understand it completely, but my heart tells me how to fear God. It is not easy all the time, but when there is reverent and worshipful fear, God will be there to guide me through the valleys and the mountaintops. My days are brighter and there is hope.

So those who know that there is a higher power, an authority greater than ourselves, will have prolonged days. You can look at this even deeper and see that those who surrender their lives to the Power of God, the salvation through Christ and the guidance of the Holy Spirit will live for eternity. Those who choose not to acknowledge this gift will surely die and waste away.

Even if there are God fearing people who's time is cut short here, their legacy lives on much longer than those who are evil. And those who are evil and live among us still have slowly begun to waste away because they have no hope, no future, many people today walk around offering nothing in this world for others but themselves, causing pain and chaos. God will make all things intended for evil, good. So those actions, those evil wrongs will be made right and God will bring justice and joy to those who are suffering.

Today, we can joyfully praise our Lord for all He is to us. Celebrate Him even through our pain. We have hope and we have joy and we have the Spirit living in us. What do the wicked have? This is all the more reason for us to reach out to those who have not yet heard about our God, for those who need him.

Dear Lord, I pray today that we will all feel overwhelmed with peace and reverent fear for you. May our worship to you today be a renewed joy in your promises and your gifts, which are too many to count. I pray that each of us would examine our lives and reach out to those that are hurting and wicked. That we may be salt and light to those who you desire to know you. I love you Lord, Amen.

Please pray for Barbara this week. Thanks so much.