I was reading Psalm 55 this morning, and the last part of verse 19 stood out to me—in neon lights! “Because they do not change, therefore they do not fear God.”
Whoa!
In this whole chapter, David is talking about how his enemy has oppressed him. But his enemy is actually his friend. And then he says, “Because they don’t change, they don’t fear God.”
Fearing God (revering him, worshiping him, having a great respect for him) brings about change. You were going one way in sin and you turn and go the other way to follow God and his teachings. You change. Your heart changes. You now have the Spirit of God living in you and he begins touching places in your heart and insisting on change. And if you don’t? He disciplines you as one of his children. (Hebrews 12:8)
This is a pretty good indicator of belonging to God. If you’re his, you’ll change. If you don’t fear God, you won’t change.
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