Psalm 34:9
9 O fear [yare'] the LORD [Yahovah], ye his saints [qadowsh]:
for there is no want [machcowr] to them that
fear [yare'] him. KJV-Interlinear
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Oh, fear the LORD, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack! ESV
Fear, ‘yare,’ means to
stand in awe, to respect, to recognize, to honor. And in order to have this attitude, you must
first know and understand, and then believe who and what God is, and who and
what the scriptures are, and how they all fit together in the realities of life
and especially how they fit in your life personally.
When the Bible says
flatly, that the believer shall lack for nothing, it is not speaking of worldly
things.
Recall that when Jesus
first came into this world, His ministry was one of miracles, among other things,
to establish His credentials, visually, as the Messiah. The crowds grew and grew in numbers as people
came to see the miracles, and as people came to get their worldly fix or
healing. To some extent His ministry
became a side show, or a circus, wherein people came to be entertained or impressed,
or to get something for nothing, as it were.
No one was standing in
line to join a daily study, in order to learn doctrine or to grow up in their spiritual
lives.
Even the disciples were
caught off guard when the crucifixion occurred.
Most people missed the point entirely.
Instead of wanting their
spiritual healing, they all wanted their physical healing. Fix my arm.
Fix my leg. Cure my disease. Restore my sight and so forth. Everyone wanted something for the now. No one
was interested in the eternal.
The same is today. People want things mostly. They want a job or
money or clothes or to be loved, or to be healed of some physical ailment. And when they do not get these things, they
become frustrated or angry.
They never once consider
that they should be studying in order to learn, studying in order to
understand, studying in order to apply principles to their life, studying on
order to grow up in their spiritual life, studying in order that all their
needs will be supplied.
That is the fear of the
Lord, the respect of the Lord, the recognition of truth and reality over ones
personal wants.
The desires of the heart,
are based on the content of the heart. The heart representing the ongoing
function of the soul.
What you think is what
you are, and what you think determines the desires of your soul. Think doctrine and the desires of doctrine are
fulfilled. Think other things and those
desires are not.
God provides doctrine, of
which there is no lack.
The world will have its
ups and downs. History has demonstrated
periods of plagues, famines, wars, economic depressions and everything else you
can imagine. Our life and destiny is not
in the history of the world or in its volatile circumstances.
Our life and destiny
depends on the content of our soul, and a doctrinal content means compliance with
Gods will and the right path to a perfect and complete life.
If you are always looking
of the perfect life, for the perfect day to day activity, a life with no
problems where everything goes the way you want it to go, then your
expectations are unrealistic and your priorities are out of sync with Gods
plan.
Into everyone's life will
come prosperity and poverty, feast and hunger, good times and not so good
times.
You can ride the
rollercoaster emotionally with the world and always be unstable, or you can
pursue Bible doctrine and achieve real stability and orientation in life for
your life.
