How Can We Cultivate a Spirit of Reverence in Today’s World?

Nobody is perfect! Our sin taints us and our human nature makes us feel lesser about ourselves. But the way towards achieving satisfaction in one’s oneself is reverence – Reverence towards God. Every worldview emphasises the importance of reverence for God as a means of spiritual growth and morality. But the Christian view of the world brings a deeper meaning to life. Take a journey through this collection of devotional readings to help your reverence for God grow.

| Day 1: Wonderful Counsellor

In the well-loved comic strip, Lucy sets up her makeshift office and advertises that she will dispense advice for a small charge. Then Charlie Brown approaches and tells her how he feels overlooked and unimportant. When he finishes describing his sense of isolation, the unconcerned ‘counsellor’ flippantly gives him the simplistic solution to “go make some friends”, and then tries to collect her fee.

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| Day 2: Slightly Off

Argh . . . I’m no longer perfect.” I groaned inwardly. The realization struck me when we replaced our home television with a 42-inch set. The color was good, the sound perfect, but what happened to the subtitles? Why were they so blurry? I had lost my 20-20 vision! My doctor informed me that my left-eye vision is slightly off by a few degrees.

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| Day 3: Secret Giver

For Christopher, a physically disabled veteran, everyday activities had become more challenging, took longer to finish, and increased his pain. Still, he did his best to serve his wife and child. Passersby would see him using a push-mower to cut his lawn every week.

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| Day 4: Not Fatherless

John Sowers in his book Fatherless Generation writes that “No generation has seen as much voluntary father absence as this one with 25 million kids growing up in single-parent homes.” In my own experience, if I’d bumped into my father on the street, I wouldn’t have known him. My parents were divorced when I was very young, and all the photos of my dad were burned.

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| Day 5: Pull Yourself Together

I cannot save and sanctify myself; I cannot atone for sin; I cannot redeem the world; I can not make right what is wrong, pure what is impure, holy what is unholy. That is all the sovereign work of God. Have I faith in what Jesus Christ has done? He has made a perfect Atonement, am I in the habit of constantly realizing it?

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| Day 6: The Divine Rule Of Life

Our Lord’s exhortation in these verses is to be generous in our behaviour to all men. In the spiritual life beware of walking according to natural affinities. Everyone has natural affinities; some people we like and others we do not like. We must never let those likes and dislikes rule in our Christian life. If we “walk in the light,” as God is in the light, God will give us communion with people for whom we have no natural affinity.

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| Day 7: The Absoluteness Of Jesus Christ

The pietistic movements of to-day have none of the rugged reality of the New Testament about them; there is nothing about them that needs the Death of Jesus Christ, all that is required is a pious atmosphere, and prayer and devotion. This type of experience is not supernatural nor miraculous, it did not cost the passion of God, it is not dyed in the blood of the Lamb, not stamped with the hall-mark of the Holy Ghost.

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