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 first, Psalms 103.13.
103.13
As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.
Question. Can dust fear?
I submit it must first be given the ability to fear.
Thus God has done with us.
He had submitted us to him.
He was with mankind before the fall.
Post fall man has learned shame, regret and fear.
God now expects us to fear him.
Not in a run and hide kind of way, but in a oh I shouldn't have done that kind of way.
This being not regret because now will pay, but fear that educates, informs and reminds us to be respectful and to behave.
He knows we are a butt dust.
So his expectations are tempered, but he knows that we have gained the ability to revere him.
And so we should in all that you're going through respect and love the Lord God.
Give him glory for all the blessings that you are receiving as difficult as some things may be.
And just on the other side of your difficulty lies the supreme glory of your relationship with God without this particular difficulty in it.
On the other side of this life and eternity in heaven with God because we loved him and trusted him and revered him while we were alive.
As a father has compassion on his children.
So the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.