The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Joshua 4:24,
"He [the Lord] did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God."
At the ceremony of commemoration for the twelve-stone memorial the Lord had Joshua set up as a visible monument to the miraculous dry river-bed crossing of the Israelites into the promised land, Joshua told the people the reason for the monument. It was erected so that the children of Israel might remember this event: how powerful the Lord displayed himself to be to the peoples of the earth in his stopping the flow of the Jordan river at flood stage. The Israelites were to always fear the Lord in their acknowledgment of it.
To fear the Lord is the appropriate reverence he is due, given who he is, what he has done, and certainly, what he is capable of. All creation owes its existence to the utterance of God, Genesis 1:1-31. All creation owes its continued existence, from moment to moment to the utterance of the Son of God, Hebrews 1:3. The fate of all creation lies in the hands of the Lord, 2 Peter 3:10-13. Our God is strong and is not to be trifled with, "It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." Hebrews 10:31. Indeed, all who are of sound mind must agree with the writer of Hebrews, "Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our 'God is a consuming fire.'" Hebrews 12:28-29.
God is to be feared!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your thoughts of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We'd love to hear from you!
Trevor Fisk
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