Deuteronomy 10:12,13
“And now, Israel, what does The LORD your God require of you, but to Fear The LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve The LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of The LORD and His statutes which I command you today for your good?”
God's will summed up neatly:
1. To Fear The Lord our God
2. To Walk in All His Ways and To Love Him
3. To Serve The Lord our God with
a. All our heart and b. All our soul
4. To Keep The Commandments of The Lord and To Walk in His Statutes
Those who do not fear The Lord are very much unaware of the wrath they could and will incur if they do not surrender their hearts and lives to God through Jesus Christ. Yes, God is longsuffering, patient towards us. Yes, God desires our love and our loving obedience to His Word. But there comes a time when patience has reached an end, and His waiting is over. Then comes His wrath, His fury and anger will be unleashed on the unbelieving soul who has denied God and refused to surrender or submit to His authority.
Thank God I will not see that wrath poured out on me. I have given my heart to Him as His own. I have surrendered my life to Him, for Him to use my life as He wills to fulfill His purpose in me. I have chosen to walk in all His Ways and to Love Him with all my heart.
I have chosen to serve my Lord with all my heart and with all my soul. And, make no mistake, Jesus Christ is My Lord; my Savior. "Lord" means Master, Ruler; it is He Who rules in my heart and my life. Because I have made a decision to believe that Jesus Christ Is Lord, my life is not my own any more. Whatever I had before I had Christ, is rubbish and worthless.
Philippians 3:8-11
8. Yes, doubtless, I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus My Lord: for Whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9. And be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, The Righteousness which is of God by faith:
10. That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death;
11. If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Exodus 20 outlines the commandments of The Lord God. The sum total of all these commandments is to Fear God and Honor Him with our Love and Devotion.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Isaiah 8:13
The LORD of Hosts is The One you shall regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded.
Here, The Fear of The Lord is linked to God's holiness. The holiness of God is beautiful to behold. Less than a handful have seen it and lived. The very nature of mankind is corrupt and evil because of the sin-nature we inherited in our DNA from when Adam and Eve sinned. She is the mother of all life, and Adam is the husband. Through them we have this stain on our hearts and our souls. Because of that we cannot see God's holiness and live without the blood of His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ covering us. Our sin-nature leads to death.
Knowing our corruptness, we can see by this that God's holiness is incorruptible, unblemished, unstained. God's holiness is righteousness, justice, life, and light, to name a few. God's patience is the only thing separating us from His wrath. When that Day comes however, the person who has chosen to believe God's message of grace and righteousness through Jesus Christ, will be set apart from the people who chose not to believe that Jesus Christ Is Lord. Sheep on one side, goats on the other. [Ecclesiastes 8:12, 13; Matthew 25:32, 33].
The one who believes will stand with the sheep. The one who does not believe wills stand with the goats. The sheep belong to God through Christ. The goats belong to the devil, to Satan. Be a sheep. Follow Jesus. Willingly. Lovingly. Joyfully. Readily.
Where do you want to be found? In Him or outside Him?
YET NOT I BUT CHRIST IN ME - CityAlight
IN CHRIST ALONE - Celtic Worship featuring Steph MacCloud
