They Have No Fear
Jeremiah 5:21-25 Amplified Bible (AMP)
21 Hear now this, O foolish people without understanding or
heart, who have eyes and see not, who have ears and hear not: 22 Do
you not fear and reverence Me? says the Lord. Do you not tremble before
Me? I placed the sand for the boundary of the sea, a perpetual barrier
beyond which it cannot pass and by an everlasting ordinance beyond which
it cannot go? And though the waves of the sea toss and shake themselves,
yet they cannot prevail [against the feeble grains of sand which God has
ordained by nature to be sufficient for His purpose]; though [the billows]
roar, yet they cannot pass over that [barrier]. [Is not such a God to be
reverently feared and worshiped?] 23 But these people have
hearts that draw back from God and wills that rebel against Him; they have
revolted and quit His service and have gone away [into idolatry]. 24 Nor
do they say in their hearts, Let us now reverently fear and worship the
Lord our God, Who gives rain, both the autumn and the spring rain in its
season, Who reserves and keeps for us the appointed weeks of the
harvest.25 Your iniquities have turned these blessings away,
and your sins have kept good [harvests] from you.
As I was texting a dear friend and sister in Christ we
were talking about the attitude that seems to have infiltrated the people of
God and how we have witnessed a great falling away, and a great sense of
compromise. In my heart I heard “They
have no fear.” I remember when my
daughter was younger, she was fearless.
You had not boundaries as it concerned trying new things and being a
daredevil. She would climb to the
highest branch of a tree, she would swing the highest point, she did not fear
that anything she tried had a consequence, or that she would suffer injury or
loss. She had no fear of danger and no
comprehension that things she was doing could cause her any harm, because not
once did she ever consider the consequences of her acrobatics.
I
often hear of people being mistreated and dealt with as if their life, contributions
of feelings do not matter. Every time I
hear these things it hurts my heart, because I understand that this is not
God’s will. We have become just like my daughter we have no fear. We have lost our reverential respect for God
and perspective for what our disobedience or maltreatment for one another can
produce. We have lost focus on what we
have been commissioned as Christians to do and how God has asked us to live as
a representative of His light. I remember some month back, our Pastor, had a
come to Jesus moment in the middle of service, no I am not referring to the
normal altar call; it was a moment where he shared that God had revealed to him
that many of us in that very room would not see heaven, because of our living,
our choices and compromises. It is
because we have leaned on the fact that grace is so amazing and it is, but we
have to remember that we still must fear God enough to obey His commands and
follow His word and will. He asked us to love our neighbor as our selves, but
for most of us we do not give anyone or many people a second thought, we allow,
power, jealousy, envy, strife, anger, and our own unhappiness and inability to
get a handle on our lives to impact how we treat others. We have placed the
will of God to the side and chosen to appease the flesh and to live in the
moment of our decisions, without thinking about God and His mandate upon our
lives.
Yes
God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power love and a sound mind,
but we must understand that fear, and I am speaking of a healthy reverential
fear of the Lord that helps us on our quest for wisdom and to make wise
decisions. Without fear of God we will
do and say things without a thought of consequences. We need to understand that it truly is God
that is in control of our live and when we disregard His dominion, authority and
rulership there is a price that is paid. When we treat people as he has asked
us not to, there is a cycle that will manifest within our lives (sowing and
reaping). We should desire to employ good
judgment over our behaviors and our words.
We need to keep the will of God and His character before us as we live
our lives, but we need to place ourselves in a place of submission to God
because we love and reverence Him as our Lord and King! We should want to be right, do right and
speak right in the eyes of God, and to the benefit and uplifting of His kingdom
and betterment of mankind!
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