Your Moment at the Well
The Lord’s insight. Never give to a man that thing which you should only give to the Lord.
Proverbs 29:25: “The fear of man brings a snare. But whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe.”
Psalm 27:1: “The Lord is my light and my Salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”
I have always known but recently I came to understand even more clearly that the Lord never threatens us with harm or to do harm to us. He never says if you don’t do this for Me, I will not do this for you? The Lord always works to make sure we find Him to be someone whom we can Trust, Believe and Love.
Man is not this way towards us. Man is often the opposite. He uses his power and position and anything else to make sure that we fear him. Man wants our fear because it is how he controls our actions and behaviors. Sometimes our fear of man teaches us to be overly concerned with what others think about us.
This fear of man and lack of confidence and value in ourselves can trap us and lead us to become anxious, to make poor decisions, or to compromise the values the Lord wants us to live each day. Yes, this is how fearing man can become a snare to us.
The Lord wants us to know that we cannot trust what we fear. So, if we fear man, we certainly should never trust man. Man wants us to fear him not to keep us safe but to keep us fearful. Fear of man keeps man safe from those of us who live by the overwhelming strength of the Lord.
So, Proverbs 29:25 warns us about fearing man. It tells us that we should trust the Lord Who will keep us safe. Trusting the Lord is how we overcome the fear we may have of man. When we place our trust in God instead of seeking constant approval from people, we find true safety, and freedom, and peace.
You should never give your fear to the man who wants you to be fearful of him. Man may do a lot of things that are unfair and unwarranted. Those things you will have to deal with. But the man who wants you to fear him more than to fear anything else is like the devil. You should never give to a man that type fear. It is only to be given to the Lord.
You can never trust a man who wants your fear. Such a man only wants your fear. Trust means you know that you can rely on someone. The man who wants your fear does not want you to rely on him; he wants you to fear relying on anyone or anything else, even yourself.
You can never be saved by the man you fear. The man you fear wants you to always feel unsafe so that you will walk the way he wants you to walk. When you fear man, he keeps you from living free from being fearful and afraid of what man can do to you.
The man who wants your fear may threaten to do many things to you; to harm you; to take your job away from you; to break up your family; to take what you value most. But hold out and do not fear him. He may harm you, but the Lord can heal you; he may take your job, but the Lord has work for you; He may break up your family, but the Lord can restore your family.
Learn to give your fear only to the Lord. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of the knowledge and wisdom you need to live a saved life with the Lord. The fear of the Lord brings you to a place where you can believe in the Lord; it brings you to a place where you can have faith in the Lord; it brings you to a place where you can trust the Lord and; it brings you to a place where you can be saved by the Lord.
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