The Devotional - 1490 - Submitting to the Fear of God

The Devotional – 1490 – Submitting to the Fear of God

Psalm 119:113-120 – I hate the double-minded, But I love Your law. You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in Your word. Depart from me, you evildoers, for I will keep the commandments of my God! Uphold me according to Your word, that I may live; and do not let me be ashamed of my hope. Hold me up, and I shall be safe, and I shall observe Your statutes continually. You reject all those who stray from Your statutes, for their deceit is falsehood. You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross; therefore I love Your testimonies. My flesh trembles for fear of You, and I am afraid of Your judgments. 

Comments and Challenges:

1 Peter 2:13-17 – Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether to the king as supreme, or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men -- as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God. Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king. 

The writer of Psalm 119 is a prisoner of war along with his nation Israel having fallen into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. A problem I see is that we seldom line up our thinking when reading the inspired Word of God with the circumstances surrounding the motivation of God the Holy Spirit to cause a man (a Prophet of God) to write of the effects of his personal life in crisis. Crisis! Should I write the word again? CRISIS! Our national product is not prosperous with freedom and liberty… it is double-minded and INCARCERATED in crisis.

What is national double-mindedness? The word of God says that it is a “broken heart” and so it is with our personal lives as well. Another question: “Why does a nation like ours or individuals within a nation like ours have a divided heart? Notice please; what God the Holy Spirit motivates the writer to say; in Psalm 119:113b – “but I love Your Law”, nationally and individually we have fallen from the absolute standard of God’s Law, to the doubled minded standard of socialism.

There is however a small remnant of folks who have not caved in to the double-minded standards or banners flying over our national “control room” these days. These men and women have shielded their families in the protection of God and in the Wisdom of His Word. The shield of faith and the prayer of the Saints of God are a vital part of our national heritage and future. Even if our nation falls, God will uphold His people, we will live according to His Word.

I hope we as a nation understand the urgency of need to return to the statutes, precepts, judgments, testimonies, laws and commandments of God. We also need as a people the proper understanding to REJECT the nonsense of leadership when that fails to acknowledge God in their daily duties to govern the rule of day. We need to reject all those who stray from God’s statutes. 

God is willing to put away all the wicked, like one who puts out the trash; but before we express our faith and pray; we need to put on the full armor for battle; the armor found in Ephesians 6:10-20. Less we too become like the smoke from the dump ourselves; without the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of peace and the girdle of truth; we are not protected from becoming a part of our National DROSS.