I will fear God and I will rejoice in His commandments

From: February 7- 13, 2006 Study: # 430

TOPIC: “I will fear God and I will rejoice in His commandments” Psalms 112: 1-10 According to how we fear God we will have a good tomorrow. What we receive will depend on how we live our lives, either for good or for evil. Sometimes the Lord becomes a load for some people, but Jesus knows what is inside of men. It’s known that there are many struggles, but it is not grievous to love Jesus. When difficult days come He never hides his face. Some serve Jesus and they live complaining. There is satisfaction when we love Jesus. The more time we dedicate to Him, the more we will have. To constantly live complaining is bad for us as Church. Some people are ready to complain, but not to believe that God is willing to work in them. They then, haven’t placed God where he belongs. They are good for the gossip, bad humor, to complain. Beloved, who do we serve? Each day God wants to come forward for us, although He is in the third Heaven. It seems sometimes that we want to kill others. It is a duty, an obligation to love because we all have been cleansed with the blood of Jesus. It is a delight to serve the Lord, and not the flesh which takes us nowhere. When we live so annoyed and lacking of love, with complaints against God and against everything, nothing works out. If we fear God we will be blessed and there is a delight in what He sends us to do. If there is something that should fulfill our lives is to obey what God sends us to do because we know that we won’t do it alone but because the Holy Spirit is in us and surrounding us there are angels that are on our side for our service. Sometimes we don’t understand that it should be a delight, a pleasure to obey what God sends us to do. The Father is in the third Heaven observing us and the Holy Spirit guides our lives. Christ's blood covers us, the angels at our service so then we are no longer common people and it is a pleasure for us, a delight to serve Him. Or is the flesh more delightful? What is greater, the flesh, the pleasures? What pleases us? If we fear Jehovah we will be happy people. We are not happy just because everything is well but because we are blessed, because we have found the greatest thing that is to fear Jehovah; and this is enough. People think that converting to Christ is a trial instead of understanding that we have been delivered. Converting means that we have become blessed, happy people. Our problems should be taken to Jehovah’s altar. Jehovah wants us to take pleasure in a great way. For some the days of tribulation become more

than the days of pleasure. If we fear Jehovah he will cover us and protect us from everything, then, why must we live afflicted? What He sends us is not to destroy us; what destroys and becomes corrupted is our flesh. How great it is when it has become for us a pleasure to obey! How happy we are to have Him and to delight in Him! Let us look at what we gain when we take pleasure in Jehovah. He has promise that for those who fear Him, their descendant will be powerful in this world. Vs. 2 Our descendant will know by our testimony whom this God belongs to and how it is necessary to fear Him. Our descendant has to see that in us there are not complaints, anger, doubts, gossip, constant uneasiness, but all that there is of God in us. Our walk will show who God is for us; if He is great or small. Blessed are those who fear Jehovah because their delight is to fulfill what God sends them to do without complaints, without gossips, without rebellion, because they haven’t lost passion. If we are able to see and understand how we must love we will be happy because we have known this great God whom doesn't die, who is powerful, whom the whole earth adores; and how much more must we adore Him with the capacity that has been given to us! When we’re able to love Him then we will love all that surrounds us. The result of a happy man is that his descendant will be powerful on Earth. What do we want? We want to know this powerful God. Perhaps we can be pursued and go through many trials, problems, but we will never be abandoned. Then, why feel pressured by problems and persecution, if God has never abandoned us? Fearing God, walking righteously is a noble act. Any thing we go through on this earth will pass; even those great trials that make us walk away from God will also pass. But for those who recognize and understand that we must love Jehovah and really fear Him, their descendant will be able to dominate the earth. When we decide not to be as everyone else our descendant will become powerful and strong in this Earth. Then we must teach our loved ones to fear Jehovah. Be careful what you teach your loved ones. By our acts and the way we walk our loved ones will learn. The house of the righteous one has wealth, justice, and it is not money because no richness can equal Gods love. Our loved ones have learned what we teach them; in order to remove what the devil wants to sow and establish Gods will, but for that we must know Gods voice and be happy. When God arrives to our house then we are happy. With God there are happy hearts, our hearts become joyful when Gods favor descends from Heaven. When God arrives there is love, there is a happy heart, Gods favor is there, and there is happiness. But when God is not there there is no happiness but rebelliousness.

How is our behavior, how do we walk before others? Careful, let us not make pact with the darkness. When we fear God, it will not abandon us when the enemy of darkness arrives. Our fear and our obedience to Gods commandments allow us to see that we are righteous. The Father sees it and the angels and they think highly of us. How much do we love righteousness and obeying the Lord? In this world great dangers loom ahead, temptation, sin, afflictions, errors, but if we fear Jehovah He favors us. For such reason we must fear and obey God. Those who love righteousness it is only because God has made them as He is. When we become righteous men and fearful of God we know what mercy towards others is because the moment of having mercy with others has arrived. But we are sometimes so selfish because we live for ourselves. We forget what having mercy with others is and we fall in necessity. A man who is filled with mercy lives for others, which is the way life is for those who fear God. The righteous is not insignificant but rather conquers, works, his life is a challenge, and loving God is a challenge for him. The righteous will not slip, his memory will not pass because he is a warrior and he knows that life is not a game. The heart of the righteous is firm, he has no fear of bad news because his heart is firm and that is what God wants for us. Vs. 7 No matter what is in front of us, our heart is strong, firm. We must continue to fear, love and keep Jehovah’s commandments. In occasions darkness will come, but soon it will disappear. Meanwhile, we must fear Jehovah and our heart will be strong and firm. The bad news for the righteous will soon disappear. The wicked will perish, but the righteous will inherit the earth. Amen.