A Good Concern by Rodney Howard Browne
If you live in an area shaken by tremors, you’re feeling a tiny ripple now and then, get a strange feeling, and then life returns to ordinary. Are you able to think how Moses felt when the Lord asserted to Moses, “Come up, Moses”? Wow. If you were Moses, what would you do now? How would you do it? How could you carry on? I should tell you how : with fear and quivering Moses made that significant journey up into the clouds.
He’d stood before a burning bush, but that was nothing in comparison to this epochal experience. The writer of Hebrews asserts, “So horrible was the sight, that Moses related, ‘I am full of fear and trembling’ “( Hebrews 12:21 ). A healthy fear of God will hold us in astonishment and do much to deter us from sin. When we’ve got a correct fear of the living Lord, we live a cleaner life.
Any born-again person who sins willfully has briefly blocked out any fear of God. When we actively engage in sin, we consciously set aside what we are the truth about God. We purposely suppress the understanding of Him in our hearts and minds. We lie to ourselves by asserting, “We’ll get by.
God will not mind so much.” Yet God used Moses to divulge to His folk a reverential and healthy fear of God Almighty. When you come to that understanding, and God’s light breaks into your life like the pure whitewater of a rushing brook, you learn how to totally hate and fear those actions that may plunge you again into darkness. The psalmist expressed that thought with these words : “How sweet are your words to my taste, more sweet than honey to my mouth. I gain understanding from your precepts ; therefore I detest each inaccurate trail. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path” ( Psalm 119:103–105 NIV ).
