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God Promises His Word to be Stabilizing 

The fear of the Lord is without blemish and brings stability to every person in every generation who turns to Him.

Psalm 19:9a says, “The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever” (ESV). Fear is the attitude of the heart that seeks a right relationship to the fear source. When you have the fear of the Lord, you have something in your heart that makes you want to be in a right relationship with God. The fear of the Lord is like a wall around your behavior that hems you in and protects you from making bad choices. It’s the fear of the Lord that causes you to avoid certain behaviors that would displease Him and bring negative consequences.

The Bible is a book that instructs us on how to relate to God properly—that is, in the fear of the Lord.

Hebrews 10:31 tells us, “It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God” (NASB). Yet into His hands we all will fall someday, and the Bible is the book that tells us how to get ready. If you fear God in this life, you will not have to fear Him in the life to come, because the fear of the Lord is clean. By that the Bible means that the fear of the Lord is “without blemish”; it is “undiminished, uncompromised, and without delusion or defilement.”

The Word of God is not only clean, but it is “enduring forever.” How badly we need a source of stability when circumstances shake our world. We never have to worry that God’s Word may be out of date or in need of revision; it is just as relevant as it was the day it was written. Circumstances may change, cultures and world leaders may come and go, but God’s Word is always current because it deals with two things that never change: the God who made us and the deepest needs of the human heart.

In every place, in every generation, in every century, in every millennium the Bible is a source of stability for all who turn to it.