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Deuteronomy 10:12 says, “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you except to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, and to worship the LORD your God with all your heart and all your soul?”

How simple is this? All we are called to do is 1. Fear the Lord, 2. Love Him and, 3. Worship the Lord. Now what does this look like? We know that three-step processes are the best, but what does it look like practically? We can discuss ideals all day and still come away as the same people, but that’s not the reason the Gospel happened. Also as a side note, the Gospel has presented since Genesis; it’s not just a “New Testament” thing, but it has been the hope of God’s people since sin entered the world.

“Fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways.” Wow, this may be a short idea, but the implications are huge. Notice that God doesn’t say, “Don’t do a, b, c…” If God wanted to make a list of “do-nots” He could of and we could have lived life in a manner that said, “Don’t step on that rock!” However, when we take up this life style, we then turn to anything that gives us an answer to any question. For example, if you’re just told not to step on the rocks and thorns, where do you then step? Anywhere else!

It is dangerous to say that we fear God like the way we should fear our parents because the multiplication of the fear is infinitely more extreme. The fear of God comes from the fact that we know that God is holding us up, and if He were for one second to let us go, we’d fall back into sin and be destined for hell as we were first born. Jonathon Edwards says in his sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God that if we were merely to slip, or mess up, we would fall straight into hell to be burned alive. The only thing keeping us up is the grace and pleasure of God (Remember that God does all that He does for His glory and pleasure).

So we fear God, and because of it we obey what He has told us to do in order to glorify Him. Understand that works do not save us from hell but merely the grace and pleasure of God. Because of this work of grace, shouldn’t we owe our lives to Him? I mean, the simple fact that He saved our lives, should we save, or separate, our lives for Him? Shouldn’t we love Him in return? Doesn’t that make sense?

If I could be honest, that has been my prayer, that I’d love God with everything that I am. My life has been don’t step on that rock, and watch out for that one! and I need to focus on the end goal. But man… if only I could truly fall in love with Christ, that’d be just perfect. Think about it. A man whose life is completely dedicated to giving God glory in everything he does. The only man that has ever really done this is Jesus Himself.

Once we truly fall in love with God, I believe, is when we will truly worship in Spirit and Truth. So let that be our prayer. Let us chase after God; find Him where He is. Not to say that God isn’t everywhere, but are we praying and reading the Bible? That is what I think chasing after God is. There is something interesting about how we can chase after God, but the same time, His grace is allowing it. So it’s like we run and chase, but in the end we find out that we have been pulled the whole way… I don’t fully understand but I know this. “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you (Matthew 6:33).”

We were made to love God and that is were true revival starts – Forsake All