A Healthy Fear
A healthy fear of God will hold us in awe and do much to deter us from sin. When we have a proper fear of the living Lord, we live a cleaner life. Any born-again person who sins wilfully has momentarily blocked out any fear of God.

Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
A healthy fear of God will hold us in awe and do much to deter us from sin. When we have a proper fear of the living Lord, we live a cleaner life. Any born-again person who sins wilfully has momentarily blocked out any fear of God.
When we're on our journey from Canaan to Egypt, we tend to be negative rather than positive. We tend to view life horizontally rather than vertically.
Jacob could see all kinds of schemes, but he still refused to see God's hand at work.
With greater success comes greater measures of trust, which, by the way, lead to greater times of unguarded vulnerability.
That's why our Lord means so much to us. He is intimately acquainted with all our ways. Darkness and light are alike to Him. No one of us is hidden from His sight.
In our hectic, hurried, harassed age in which headache medications have become the bestselling national product, we must occasionally be made to lie down by our Shepherd-Saviour.
I want to be quite direct with you. Secular thought has taken a tragic toll on the servant of God's distinctiveness.
God says we are to be "imitators" of Him, which really means we are to "mimic" Him. Since God is a God of freshness and change, so we should be.
God has no limitations in His ability to pull something off, but He's going to do it in His time and not before.
One of my mentors used to say, "Mercy is God's ministry to the miserable."