FEAR GOD

Ecclesiastes 12:13 “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: fear God, and keep His commandment: for this is the whole duty of man”

To fear God is to have great respect or reverence for God. It involves treating everything that is of God “sacred”. When you live with the fear of God in your heart, you hold in high esteem everything that belongs to God.

Walking in and with the fear of God must be your hallmark as a Christian. Nothing must make you compromise on that. Anyone who claims to be a Christian and does not have deep respect or reverence for the things of God is going nowhere.

Walking in the fear of God was one of the characteristics of the early Church. In fact, the fear they had for God made them wrought wonders. See Acts 9:31: “Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.”

You see, if we can walk in the fear of God in this our generation, God’s power will certainly manifest in our Churches. Many Christians have left the “realm of fearing God”. Some treat the things of God with great disrespect to the extent that many people criticize pastors, make bad comments about them and even run into hasty generalization to condemn men of God. Such people simply refuse to accept that it is God who has appointed these servants. (Ephesians 4:11).

People no longer care about how they handle the things of God. They take spiritual meetings or Church services for granted but will show up for social events. Others too abuse the body that God has given them with immorality and lascivious activities forgetting that their body is God’s house. 1 Corinthians 6:19 says “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”

Not only that, we have people who spend a lot of money on worldly and worthless things like fashion, pleasure and funfairs. But these same people will not give a dime as an offering and justify their “lack of respect or fear for God” with a comment that “the pastor wants their money”.

Fearing God is not an alternative to the Christian. It is a must. Omit it and you will be omitted divinely.

Read: Ecclesiastes 12:13