To Fear God is to Love God

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“The fear of the Lord is not a trepidation of his presence. The fear of the Lord is a deep reverent respect for his majesty and power. The fear of God is to worship him in spirit with a true heart and in love because he's good. He's the king.”

Psalm 25:12
Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him shall He teach in the way He chooses.

In The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis, two girls, Susan and Lucy, get ready to meet Aslan the Lion. Aslan represents Christ. Mr. and Mrs. Beaver prepare the children for the encounter. "Ooh," said Susan, "I thought he was a man. Is he quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion."

"That you will, dearie," said Mrs. Beaver. "And make no mistake, if there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most or else just silly."

"Then isn't he safe?" said Lucy. "Safe?" said Mr. Beaver. "Don't you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? Of course, he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the king, I tell you!"

I’m learning daily, the fear of God. The fear of God is not fight or flight. The fear of God is like the fear one might have of high voltage. High-voltage electricity has the power to snuff out life in a flash, yet we employ 220V daily to run our appliances in the home. I have deep respect for the power socket in my bedroom but I’m most grateful for the power it provides to bring me light in the dark.

Our God is high and exalted. He is our sovereign Majesty. His character is supreme, his power unlimited and his will, paramount. Our God is the supreme Creator of the universe. He has the power to snuff out life in a flash. Yet, God loved you and me so much that he gave his righteous Son as a propitiation for our sins. By his grace, we boldly approach his throne and obtain mercy and grace to help us in our time of need.

To fear God is to love God. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love. To fear God is to not fear his judgement. If you know Christ as Saviour, having surrendered your life to him, then you live in love, not fear. Perfect love casts out fear. Yet we are told that he will teach us his ways if we fear him.

The fear of the Lord is not a trepidation of his presence. The fear of the Lord is a deep reverent respect for his majesty, power and grace. The fear of God is to lovingly worship him in spirit with a true heart. He's good. He's the king.

God-tracking is walking in the fear of the Lord.

IT’S ALL IN THE BIBLE. READ ALL ABOUT IT. (NKJV)
Get into the word of God and get the word of God into you!
Hebrews 4:16
2 Timothy 1:7
1 John 4:17-19
John 4:23

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“You are good. You are the king, and I love you.”

“O holy and sovereign God, forgive me for my flippancy. I acknowledge your might and power. You are the Creator of the universe and the most highly exalted God. Yet, I thank you for making the way for a sinner like me to boldly approach your presence with love. I deeply respect you, O Father. I worship you in reverence and fear but I praise and thank you that you loved me so much that Jesus died to bring me life. I praise and thank you that you hear my every cry and meet all my needs by your power because you love me. You are good. You are my king, and I love you. Amen.”

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GodTracker is a weekly e-mail Christian motivational thought, written by Dudley Anderson, based on the premise that God has a plan for our lives. His Word calls us to seek his plan by acknowledging him in all our ways and by tracking his purposes, in faith. Most of what you’ll read is based upon the author’s personal experience of tracking the plans of God.

Listen to GodTracker podcasts by Dudley Anderson at, godtracker.co.uk/godtracker-podcasts

Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

 

Destined to Choose Love

GodTracker 932
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“God is love and so we need to choose to accept his grace by faith because he loved us so much in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.”

Deuteronomy 30:19
I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore, choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.

“I have a question about being chosen that I really want to understand more clearly if you could possibly help, please.” An email I received from a viewer of one of my talky video shows. “If it is God’s will that everyone be saved, then how does that correlate with only the chosen being saved? Wouldn’t God have chosen and predestined everyone if he wanted all to be saved?” It was one of those wonderful short emails posing a very deep theological question. I did my best to reply.

“God is eternal and omniscient,” I wrote. “He is not confined by time and he knows all things, past, present and future. Therefore, when I read that those God foreknew and predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, I read it from the point of view that God already knows who will accept the message of Christ and who will not. However, we do not enjoy the same privilege. Therefore, in the here and now, you and I have an obligation to respond to the message of the cross.

“We are saved by grace through faith. Grace is God’s doing. God’s grace saved us through the death and resurrection of Jesus. Faith is our part in salvation but even faith demonstrates we have no part in our salvation. Faith comes from God’s word and faith is confidence in another. However, faith is a choice, that is, faith is choosing to have confidence in the work or effort of another person to do what you cannot do. So, even though God foreknows your salvation, you still need to choose to have faith in Christ and put your confidence in his death and resurrection, confessing him to be Lord of your life,” I added.

“Although it is God’s desire that all the world should be saved, he gave us the privilege of choice. Indeed, God has foreknowledge of every soul who will accept Christ but, by his design, he allowed us to choose to follow or reject his goodness. Sadly, in Eden, man chose to reject the will of God and so all have sinned. Therefore, it’s God’s desire that we choose to turn from sin and choose to be reconciled to his goodness, through Christ.

“The core reason for God allowing us the privilege to choose him is love. How could we ever know God’s love unless we choose to receive it? Like faith, love is a choice. God is love and so we need to choose to accept his grace by faith because he loved us so much in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us,” I ended my email reply and hit send, hoping my viewer would understand the gist of what I was saying.

Indeed, God loved you so much that he gave his only begotten Son, that if you choose to believe in him, you should not perish but have everlasting life. He knows the plans he has for you. Therefore, choose life today that you may live.

God-tracking is a choice.

IT’S ALL IN THE BIBLE. READ ALL ABOUT IT. (NKJV)
Get into the word of God and get the word of God into you!
Romans 8:28-30
Ephesians 2:8
Romans 10:17
1 Timothy 2:4
Romans 3:23
1 John 4:8
Romans 5:8
John 3:16

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SO, DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

“You know the plans you have for me. Lead me in your predestined plan for my life.”

“Dear God, thank you so much that Jesus, the guiltless One, took the guilt of my sin at Calvery. Although you already know what I will decide, I take this moment to personally choose to acknowledge Jesus’ death and resurrection and confess him to be Lord of my life. I choose the way, the truth and the life! O, eternal God, I choose to track your will for my life every day. You know the plans you have for me. Lead me in your predestined plan for my life. Amen.”

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What is GodTracker?
GodTracker is a weekly e-mail Christian motivational thought, written by Dudley Anderson, based on the premise that God has a plan for our lives. His Word calls us to seek his plan by acknowledging him in all our ways and by tracking his purposes, in faith. Most of what you’ll read is based upon the author’s personal experience of tracking the plans of God.

Listen to GodTracker podcasts by Dudley Anderson at, godtracker.co.uk/godtracker-podcasts

Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Embracing God’s Presence

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“But when Jesus died the veil was ripped in two revealing the glory of God to all who would come to him in faith. Through Jesus, the veil is removed enabling you and me to embrace God’s presence.”

2 Corinthians 3:16
Nevertheless, when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

Accompanied by majestic music, the young bride slowly walked down the aisle arm in arm with her father. She looked beautiful. Her delicate white gown gently embraced her shoulders while a covering lace flourished to her ankles. Behind her flowed a long white train. The bride’s countenance was obscured by a soft white veil. Slowly, majestically, dad and daughter made their way to the altar to meet her groom, her radiant visage concealed to him. Through a veil dimly he gazed at her beauty. Reaching up, tears in his eyes, her father unveiled her face, kissed his daughter, and presented her to her husband. From that moment on the groom would be with his unveiled bride, embracing her presence.

When Moses descended from Mount Sinai after being in God’s presence for forty days his face was glowing. The sheer magnificence of the glory of the Lord Almighty had engulfed the man so that light radiated from his countenance. The people could not look at him. So, Moses covered his face with a veil. Moses had embraced the presence of the holy God such that God’s glory was evident in his face. To this day when Moses is read, a veil lies on their hearts. But when Jesus died the veil was ripped in two revealing the glory of God to all who would come to him in faith. Through Jesus, the veil is removed enabling you and me to embrace God’s presence.

Have you allowed the veil to be removed or are you standing concealed before the groom? Come to Jesus now and allow the Father to remove that veil. Open your heart and embrace God’s presence.

God-tracking is being uncovered in the presence of God.

IT’S ALL IN THE BIBLE. READ ALL ABOUT IT. (NKJV)
Get into the word of God and get the word of God into you!
1 Corinthians 13:12
2 Corinthians 3:12-18
Mark 15:37-39

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SO, DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

“Help me to embrace your presence every day as I come to you exposed and unveiled.”

“Oh Lord, you are high and exalted. Your glory fills the earth. I desire to live in your perpetual presence. Forgive me for keeping the veil over my face. Today I rip it off. Jesus, you revealed the presence of God to us when you died on the cross. Today I confess you to be Lord of my life and believe that you died and rose again to remove the veil that covers my face. Help me to embrace your presence every day as I come to you exposed and unveiled. Amen.

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What is GodTracker?
GodTracker is a weekly e-mail Christian motivational thought, written by Dudley Anderson, based on the premise that God has a plan for our lives. His Word calls us to seek his plan by acknowledging him in all our ways and by tracking his purposes, in faith. Most of what you’ll read is based upon the author’s personal experience of tracking the plans of God.

Listen to GodTracker podcasts by Dudley Anderson at, godtracker.co.uk/godtracker-podcasts

Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

God’s Perfect Gift

 

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“And the Father of lights gives perfect gifts to his children, in him there is no variation or shadow of turning. Jesus Christ is God’s perfect gift to you today.”

James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

God created mankind in his image. God is good – absolutely good – so mankind was originally created good. Sadly, man chose to turn away from God’s goodness in the garden and so the darkness of sin entered the world. Scripture tells us that God is light and in him, there is no darkness. Jesus, God’s Son, is called the Word of God. He was with God at creation and all things have been created through him, the Word of God. In him was life, and the life was the light of men and the light shines in the darkness.

God is called the Father of lights and, as a father, he gives his children perfect gifts. Jesus said, “If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” Our Father in heaven loved the world so much that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Every Christmas we celebrate the coming of God’s only begotten son. The Creator who created us good has reconciled to his goodness through his good son. Jesus Christ was born of a virgin. That is, though he had a natural mother he was conceived without a natural father. God the good Creator is Jesus’ Father by the Holy Spirit. Therefore, Jesus is perfect. He is fully God, yet fully man. As God, Jesus is as we were when we were created – good and sinless. This is why he was able to die for sin and rise from the dead. Only by faith in his death and resurrection and by calling him Lord, can we be reconciled to the goodness of God and call him Father.

And the Father of lights gives perfect gifts to his children, in him there is no variation or shadow of turning. Jesus Christ is God’s perfect gift to you today

(If this message makes sense to you today, please pray the prayer below.)

God-tracking is calling on the Father of lights.

IT’S ALL IN THE BIBLE. READ ALL ABOUT IT. (NKJV)
Get into the word of God and get the word of God into you!
Genesis 3:1-19
1 John 1:5
1 John 4:8
John 1:1-5
Luke 11:11-13
John 3:16
2 Corinthians 5:21

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SO, DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

“I trust you, O Lord, to continue to do the good work that you began in me.”

“Dear God, I realise now that I have missed the mark of your perfect goodness. Forgive me for my sin. I turn away from darkness and turn to you, O Father of lights. Thank you for sending Jesus to pay for my sin. I believe he died for sin and rose from the dead to free me from darkness. I accept and confess Jesus Christ to be my Lord and Saviour. Thank you that you give me your Holy Spirit as I ask Jesus into my life. Amen.”

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What is GodTracker?
GodTracker is a weekly e-mail Christian motivational thought, written by Dudley Anderson, based on the premise that God has a plan for our lives. His Word calls us to seek his plan by acknowledging him in all our ways and by tracking his purposes, in faith. Most of what you’ll read is based upon the author’s personal experience of tracking the plans of God.

Listen to GodTracker podcasts by Dudley Anderson at, godtracker.co.uk/godtracker-podcasts

Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.