Tuesday, January 19, 2016

THE GOD FEARING MAN


Praise the Lord everybody!! He alone is worthy to be praised!! I pray everyone is enjoying a blessed start to their new year. My wife and I are expecting great things in our walk with God this year. We plan on focusing in on Him and let the rest be added on to us.

The other day I was thinking about a phrase I haven't heard in a long long time here in America. There was a time when a person was describing someone that he respected as an upstanding citizen He would be referred to as a "God-fearing" man, code for "this is a man you can trust."
 You heard that term a lot in this country back when It was considered to be a "God-fearing, Christian" country. The word of God states in Psalm 111:10  10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

The fact that there were men considered to be "God-fearing" all  over this country at one time and the fact that the fear of God is only the "beginning of wisdom" according to Gods word speaks volumes as to the state of America then and now. There was a time when we knew as a country that it was God that was the hope of this nation and that in all things we were to look to Him for wisdom on how to deal with the situation. Now we reverence man more than God, How another man feels is more important than how God feels. We go out of our way to not offend each other and rail on about "political correctness" but we offend God every day with our behavior.

The fear of God is an important attribute for a man of God to have, it brings with it Gods favor, Job 1:6-8 states   6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.

7 And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

8 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

God is looking for men who will fear Him enough that they will reject all evil and avoid the practice of it, men that He can wave in Satan's face when the accuser of the brethren comes around. Such were many of the men who shaped and established this Country, they prospered and the country prospered because they feared the Lord, this is the beginning of wisdom, the first building block, the cornerstone of obtaining and building wisdom.

Where are the God-fearing men of this world? That is a question we all have to ask ourselves when we look in our mirrors every morning because that's where it starts, it starts with us.

  God bless you all, Brother Darrell, Speaking Off The Wall

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Amen the word of God says the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Good word man of God