Psalm 34:9-10 NIV
Fear the Lord, you his holy people, for those who fear him lack nothing. The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
Have you ever gotten to a point in your life as a disciple of Jesus Christ where you feel weak and empty? This passage was given to me on a day that I needed the reminder that my weakness and hunger or feeling of emptiness is the result of my lack of fear of the Lord Jesus Christ. David was in a very vulnerable situation when this Psalm was written because he was facing what could have been his death. Yet, he credited his victory not to his clever decision but to the fact that he feared the Lord. Who or what do you fear in your life? Could it be failures, success, yourself, rejection or anything or people that you perceive as the authority over your life. The promise in the Psalm is if we choose to fear God above all things, we will lack nothing. This verse brought me to Jesus encounter at the well where he exclaimed the water that he offers is "a spring of life." Life can be very scary in this world, and we might even be tempted to conform according to our society. Let's remember to fear our Lord who promises us eternal life (John 14:6) and who "...hold the keys of death and Hades" (Revelations 1:17-18).
