Our topic this week was about the Fear of the Lord, which has never completely made sense to me. Our Lord is love, right? We all know that, but "There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment." (1 John 4:18) I knew both concepts were right, but it still didn't make since. I knew that it wasn't a fear exactly but more of a fatherly reverence, but come on. Can you blame me for being so confused? I think I get it now though. With much amazing teaching, Sunawh Park explained that the God we serve is HUGE!!!!!!!!! And he created the world. He has the power of life and death in our hands, and He knows all, and is all. He knows what is best for us, and He is our covering over us. We should fear stepping out of that covering. We should fear doing something outside of His perfect will. Not that anything can ever separate us from His love (Romans 8) but we should obey Him. Obedience comes from the fear (reverence) of our God. It's honestly a hard thing to explain in my opinion, but my point is, I think I get it...
Something else Sunawh said was that the Holy Spirit is the forgotten love. Think about it. How often do we address the Holy Spirit? We talk about Jesus and pray to God, but do we realize that this huge God that created the entire universe is LIVING INSIDE OF US?!?!? The same hands that healed the sick, brought the dead back to life, and had nails in them, are inside of me typing out this blog. I have that power alive inside of me, and I sit on a couch and put that same hand into a bag of chips and watch T.V.? This is a crazy thought to me. I have failed to recognize the good I could have allowed it to do my whole life. I have the power of God inside of me, and I stare at the world and go OMG someone should do something about that. Well, Jana, why don't you? I don't know guys, but I think this changes everything.
I was reading in my Bible earlier today and I came across the story in Matthew 14:13-21. I have heard this story before of course, many of us have, but I saw it in a new light. Firstly, Jesus' cousin just got his head cut off and Jesus didn't have time to mourn really. It says he tried to get away, but 5,000 men plus women and children followed Him. Jesus had compassion on them, laid his sorrow aside, and took care of them. I get caught up in my own pathetic drama how often, and then say that I have to deal with "my own problems" right now. Now, this is a good thing sometimes, it's even biblical to do that, but always? No. Another thing that stuck out is how the disciples were like Jesus they needa go and eat, and Jesus was like, "You feed them." then the disciples complained that they didn't have enough to do it. Jesus told them to bring them what they had, and then Jesus prayed and thanked God for what they had. Then something CRAZY happened. They had so much extra they didn't know what to do with it. Quite often (meaning always) God has given us something that He wants us to use. He asks us to just thank Him for what we have and do something with it! We shouldn't focus on what we don't have, or what we still need. One of the days we had a day of giving. It was amazing, everyone gave a little bit of what they had, and somehow it ended up just multiplying. We were in debt several thousand dollars, and it all got paid and everyone ended up getting at least twice what they had given. It was amazing!!! Yet, still, many of us are worried about finances. We always say "God will provide." however, is that what we should be saying? Yes, it is true. God will always provide our needs, but is that what we should be saying? Shouldn't we go back instead? Shouldn’t we be saying, "God HAS provided for me in the past." we should go back to those specific times when He has, so when our faith is week, we can be reminded of His faithfulness.
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