Dece 28, 2007
Is 43:5-7 - Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you. I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
The beginning and end form an incredible truth that we should mediate on deeply… Fear not for I am with you…because I created you for my glory, whom I formed and made. Because we were created by an almighty God who was created for God’s glory alone, we can rest in absolute peace that nothing will hinder God in doing what we were created to do.
Nu 25:11 - “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites; for he was as zealous as I am for my honor among them, so that in my zeal I did not put an end to them.
I so love the description of Phineas that I would name my child after him, if it weren’t such an unusual name. What a epigraph. Do we have the same zeal for God’s glory? The anger of God was turned away from the sin of the Israelities because one man zealously feared the glory of God. These two verses form an incredible truth for which we need to take to heart. Fear keeps a man from bringing man glory, while fearing God brings Him glory. Fear gives a great glory to whatever is that has more power than God. Fearing God gives all power to God and thus brings him glory.
