Fear this.

"Be even more careful to put into action God's saving work in your lives, obeying God with deep reverence and fear. For God is working in you, giving you the desire to obey him and the power to do what pleases him." Philippians 2:12-13

Obedience comes from the root of fear. Fearing God is obeying God. The only way to truly obey God is to fear him. What does fear mean in our vocabularies? Fear to me is admitting that I am much smaller than something and am willing to do their will because of it. Fear to me is allowing myself to step out on a limb because I know that someone else knows more in the situation. Fear to me is being uncertain of trying it on my own, but knowing it will be okay with someone else at my side. This word fear is so funny in the Christian vocabulary. Because the fear that I just described is how we should feel all the time. Fearing God is not something we do. We take God and put him in a box and allow ourselves to be the bigger man. However, true obedience in God lies in the concept of fear. We should fear God because he loves us. Sure, his way may not always make sense to us, but that means that we should go after it all the more.

Funny how we say things and don't practice them to ourselves.

Advice for the day: Listen to your own advice.

"It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. He is dangerous, not safe at all. And yet there is something far more dangerous and fearful than to fall into His hands: to not fall into His hands" -Mark Buchanan