HEAR Journaling - Exodus 20
Highlight – Exodus 20:18-21 New Living Translation
18 When the people heard the thunder and the loud blast of the ram’s horn, and when they saw the flashes of lightning and the smoke billowing from the mountain, they stood at a distance, trembling with fear.
19 And they said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen. But don’t let God speak directly to us, or we will die!”
20 “Don’t be afraid,” Moses answered them, “for God has come in this way to test you, and so that your fear of him will keep you from sinning!”
21 As the people stood in the distance, Moses approached the dark cloud where God was.
Explain – The people of Israel were afraid to face God or to hear God’s instructions. Amazing that there was no doubt that this was God appearing to them, but they were afraid of Him.
Apply – Jesus came to us in the form of a man so that we could understand God’s love and His great mercy, grace, and forgiveness. He came so that we would know Him as our Lord and Savior, who we can meet and commune with any time or place. We need not fear Him as in terror or anxiety, but in a reverential fear in the awe and wonder of His personal relationship with each of us.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Psalm 34:4 ESV I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.
1 John 4:18 ESV There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
1 Peter 3:18 ESV For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
Isaiah 53:5 ESV But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
Romans 5:8 ESV But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
1 John 4:19 ESV We love because he first loved us.
Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
1 John 3:1 ESV See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 4:16 ESV So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
Respond – Lord, thank You for Your love, mercy, and grace. Thank You for this amazing relationship that I share with You. I strive to follow You obediently and faithfully forever. I pray for any that do not know You, Lord. Amen.
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