Amen!
So, fear. It kind of bothers me when people come across like we are supposed to be afraid. i.e. I see so many slam another for things they are afraid of. I totally agree that we are supposed to stay in the light. But I don't believe we are supposed to jump every time someone says "boo". I have watched others condemn people for being "occultic" for discussing ideas they aren't comfortable...and one person (ok to say?) said to me once that fear can be made into an idol. Our Lord showed me some on that one. Truly fearing God alone...we don't have to be afraid all the time...and not just an excuse to go ahead and "sin" anyway...I don't want to sin. But I do really like being confidently safe and secure.
Any thoughts??
and one person (ok to say?) said to me once that fear can be made into an idol.Not the 'fear' so much as that which we place our fear/s in...the thing we fear
In the book of Malachi, chapter 1
Mal 1:6 ¶ A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I [be] a father, where [is] mine honour? and if I [be] a master, where [is] my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name.
And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? Mal 1:7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar;
and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In
that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] contemptible. (Note worthy: they were saying...)
The words 'despised' and 'contemptible' can also mean 'worthless'
How can we make God's name worthless, how can we pollute His alter? (We make spiritual sacrifices now) How can we say the table of the Lord is worthless? The ones that Malachi brought this message to seem to be blind to how they were doing these things...
They were going
or at least Malachi made them sound that way!
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