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It is your duty to fear, honour God
Jan 17, 2021
Worshippers AT Mgbidi 2021
There is an English adage that says we should give honour and respect to whom they are due. In this regard, our earthly parents, elders both in the church and the secular deserve our honour and respect at all times because of the authority they hold in our lives. But the personality that should be accorded with the highest honour, fear and reverence is the Almighty God because He is the creator and life giver. He holds the key of life and death. God has the power to take the life of any man and also to restore it if the person dies without His permission. Man should therefore fear, honour and reverence God. This is why the Bible in Ecclesiastes 12:13-14, says: “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. (14) For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.”
It is rather unfortunate that men do not fear and honour God, rather they are afraid of their fellow men who are either armed robbers or ritual killers, witch doctors, soldiers or even policemen because such people are capable of harming them physically. People even fear wild and dangerous animals, diseases and pestilences because of the fear of death, forgetting that all these have power only over the body, but God has the power to destroy the flesh or throw the soul into everlasting hell fire as a punishment. It is as a result of lack of fear and honour to our Maker that made the Almighty God to lament in Malachi 1:6, asking, A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? … Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the Lord is contemptible.
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