January 30
Psalms 119:38 Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.
Some of us, some more than others, are prone to doubt God’s Word; we have a natural tendency to doubt his promises of care and support. It is true that these days, from all sides wherever we go, we are incessantly bombarded with alternative concepts. If we are not on-guard against them, these erode at our faith and trust in the Lord. Sad to say, the most common scenario is that our virtue gets trampled upon and we don’t even realize it. We continue our life in a humdrum fashion until something wrong happens which serves as a catalyst to expose our waning spiritual condition. Tragedy in our lives often renews in us the lost fear of the Lord.
The good news is that if we have an inner devotion to the fear of the Lord, we will be able to see it. Unless our soul is ‘seared’ (1 Timothy 4:2) by a self-justifying spirit of rebellion, if we live close to the Lord, He is able to show us when our faith sinks under the pressures of the world.
May then God help establish his Word, his promises and his spiritual principles in our hearts. May they be anchored, keeping our ship unmovable against the raging and roaring influences that would sink it in doubts. May his Word be the ‘fact’ and the ‘amen’ to each and every situation coming our way. And with all these, may the peace that passes all understanding reigns in us as a testimony of the hope that is in us (1 Peter 3:15).
2 Peter 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
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