July 21

God is going to pay attention to someone and put them in high regard – that someone is the one who is humble and contrite and his spirit trembles at the Word of the Lord. That isn’t a new concept to me but it is a refreshing one, especially after I just preached warfare and violence. Even with the warfare mentality, I must remain humble and contrite before the Lord. The only things that I have to offer are things that I gained from His hand. There is nothing that I have without being given from Him that I can offer to Him or to mankind. To walk like that is more difficult because I put on the air at times, that I have it together. That is because I have an insecurity that I am not all that – which I am not! There is a blending of humility and confidence that must happen in my soul, which will take care of the pride and the false humility. Does that make sense to you? I am confident in the Lord and all that He is in me and what He will do through me, but humbled by the fact that it is Him, or more appropriately, us that performs any good. I am humbled by His partnership with me.

The trembling at His Word is basically being afraid that if God says to do something (or not to do something), I would be too afraid not to obey because of the consequences, which could be both spelled out or implied. I don’t fear that God will somehow crush me, I fear that I will be out of step with Him and miss the blessing and enter into a curse. Get it? When God says don’t buy that thing, fear should come over us to keep us away from that purchase – because there is no life in that purchase – there is death!

Oh God, keep me from becoming too casual with You so that I don’t fear your Word. Your Words are life to me.