Along a well-traveled street in our city
a speed camera monitors all passing cars.
Knowing that they are being watched and fearful
of getting a ticket, drivers briefly slow down,
but once past blissfully continue on at their own pace.
Our behavior before God often operates the same way.
Just as we are mindfully fearful of the speed camera,
we likewise ought to be aware that everything we do,
say and think is also seen before almighty God.
Proverbs 20:27 says that
“The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD,
searching all the inward parts of the belly” and
Psalm 33:18 also reminds us that
“The eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him”
yet many people HAVE NO FEAR OF GOD for their actions
or consider that everything they do and say is a matter of record:
“And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened.
Then another book was opened, which is the book of life.
And the dead were judged by what was written in the books,
according to what they had done.”
Revelation 20:12
Friend, just as fear and mindfulness of speed cameras is
for our good, when we also fear the Lord, “Evil Is Avoided.”
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