This is Pastor Daniel Stevenson, I'm director of the Southside Life Station and pastor of New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church of East Toledo.
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Today's verse, Psalms 33 and 8. It says,
Let all the earth fear the Lord, let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
This is sort of a prayer when you think about it. It's not specifically prayed to God, but it's like a prayer out into the air to say,
Everyone should do this. This makes sense, hearkening back to the power that God displayed at the creation, the cross and in the lives of believers aplenty.
Has his willingness to die for his people altered their recognition of his power and the need to fear him?
I can, we can trust him. People choose to trust him only enough to not fear him, and not actually enough to have him as a helper,
which leaves them susceptible to the yearnings without the blessings of his return.
Well, that sounds like foolishness. I say we trust him with our today, with our yesterday, with our tomorrow, with our eternity.
He was big enough and powerful enough to make everything. He was big enough and powerful enough to part the Red Sea,
to part the Jordan, to protect the Israelites into the promised land, to preserve his legacy,
to make the Bible transition through to thousands of years later, to cause Jesus to die on the cross.
Miracle upon miracles, and here we are in all creation testifying, we can trust him.
In fact, let all the people of the earth fear the Lord, let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him in Jesus' name we pray, Amen.