1 Samuel 1:24-28 ~ 1 Samuel 2:1, 4-8 ~ Luke 1:46-56
“His mercy is from age to age on those who fear him.” Luke 1:50
For four days this week we were encouraged to get past
“fear,” the kind that paralyses. For the next two days we hear of a life-giving
fear. It’s not a fear causing us to hide in terror because of God’s power.
Rather, it’s a fear creating in us a desire to draw ever- closer to God. It is
a reverential awe that makes us spellbound by God and causes us to be amazed by
God’s word. Such “fear of the Lord” enables us to see God as God is, to break
open our lives – even in our imperfection – before God so that God can pour his
mercy into us. Such fear, we will read tomorrow, draws us into friendship with
God, motivates us to remember the God’s deeds “to their last detail, leads us
to recount them to others.
Lead me, Awesome God, deeper into an empowering awe-fullness
before you.
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