Daily Devotionals by Ardith Keef

     We must have a healthy fear of God.
     While it is foremost to consider the Love of God, the Soldier of the Cross must understand there are absolute consequences for sin, and there ought to be a healthy fear of the holiness of the Lord.
     Believers today must see Him as not only sovereign, but as a Holy God who must be obeyed. Many have a tendency to think that He is like a trading post - the more good we do, the more good He does back.
     Not so.
     He has set up certain laws and they remain unbroken. Yes, there is healing, and yes, He can restore the years the locusts have eaten. He forgives and He gives Grace.
     But lying releases hell. So does adultery, covetousness, laziness, etc.
     We must live by the Word of God - for the next hour. We must understand that if there has been sin, we must come to prayer and think back to the thread of thoughts that were woven about and through the sin and repent of them.
     The believer who realizes his need to be clean before the Lord will simply submit, repent and he will not continue to self-examine to make himself better, because he has presented himself without reservation.
     Time is short and eternity is without measure. We must not entrench.
     Rather, we must prepare.