How to Glorify God When You Have Emotion?

“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the Lord’s commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good? Deuteronomy 10: 12-13. How to glorify God when You have emotion?

Today we are continuing of discussion of fear.  So yesterday as I closed, I asked a question are we to fear anything and I mean anything? Yes, our answer is found in Deuteronomy our God requires us to fear Him. We are to fear the Lord and nothing else. So, we are to be afraid of God. I said that to make tell you that there is a difference between fearing God and being afraid of Him. We are not to be afraid of God meaning when we need to come to Him, we are not afraid to do so or when we pray or worship Him, we are not to be afraid to do so. The fear that I am talking about is the fear of reverence not of being afraid.

Let's talk about this fear we are to have further. The kind of fear that I am talking about is found throughout the bible. this commandment does not come from me but comes from the Lord our God. this kind of fear as I said is a fear of reverence which means we are to revere God and not take His commandments lightly, we are to fear what will happen if we don't keep the things which God has commanded us. an example of this is Leviticus 25:17 and it says, So you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.  We are not to do wrong against anyone but to fear God I believe to go further if we do God will deal with us justly. It does not say that but we can imply from reading the text. 

I haven't said it yet so I will say it now that we are to be in reverence for everything God has for us even when we don't agree or believe it to be true. we are to be in total reverence to God each and every day, for is our creator and is our Father in Heaven sitting on His throne. That is mind-blowing that we are to be this way.  I leave it there for today so can let that sink in. Tomorrow I will talk about why we do not do this.

All Bible verses taken from the NASB