Fear Of God // Stand In AweSample

The Fear of God = Value

The Bible opens with a book called Genesis, which begins with a description of how God intended the world to be. It paints a beautiful image of God’s original intention for the world, before humans turned their back on God and sin entered the world; it talks about God’s perfect creation, with God walking hand in hand with humanity. 

The interesting thing is that, in this image of God’s ultimate desire for the world, there is no evidence of fear! Adam and Eve aren’t scared of each other, they aren’t scared of the animals around them and they aren’t scared of God. This shows that as humans we were created to be free from fear, and that when fear comes knocking on our hearts, we can be confident that giving into that fear is not God’s intention for our life.

Many fears come our way in the world we live in today and one of them is the fear of being worthless; that our life doesn’t really matter that much. But what we learn in the Genesis story is that the fear of God is the starting point for knowing our value. Just as Adam and Eve knew God at a personal level, it is only when we truly understand who God is that we are able to understand how God sees our lives, as incredibly valuable and worth dying for.

In life, the price you pay for something determines how much you value it. And when it comes to our life, God couldn’t have paid a higher price than the life of his own Son. As it says in today’s Scripture, even before we loved God, He chose to sacrifice Jesus for us. By accepting that, the Bible says that we become part of God’s royal family, as children of God!

The fact that God, in all His power and majesty, sent His Son, Jesus, to die on a cross so that we could live, is the greatest miracle this world has ever seen. We can only stand in awe of God’s magnificent saving work and the incredible value he puts on our life. You are a child of God, created in his image, and no-one can take that away from you!