Seize the Moment – Day 351
The Fear of the Lord!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Wednesday, March 3. You are invited to join us tonight from 6:15-7, in person or online, for our mid-week prayer service, which is intended to be an island of serenity in your week.
The fear of the Lord is the reverence and awe of God that happens when we see God for who He is and not for who we make Him out to be.
When is the last time you received a fresh revelation of God?
Revelation 4 moves me to a place of reverence and awe of God. Listen to verses 2-3, 5a,
Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne. And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance. Out from the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder.
As the description continues it continues to invite us deeper. From verses 8-9, the scene unfolds around the throne with “four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.’”
What an exalted view of God as He sits on His throne with the four living beings in continual worship and twenty-four elders casting their crowns in absolute surrender to God because of who He is and what He has done. They proclaim in verse 11, “Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created.” Amen!
Seize the moment and worship Jesus Christ alone with your life. Only He is worthy!