Come with Reverence

[Daily Devotional]

Come with Reverence 

Let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and
godly fear. Heb. 12: 28. 

There should be an intelligent knowledge of how to come to God in reverence
and godly fear with devotional love. There is a growing lack of reverence
for our Maker, a growing disregard of His greatness and His majesty. But God
is speaking to us in these last days. We hear His voice in the storm, in the
rolling thunder. We hear of calamities He permits in the earthquakes, the
breaking forth of waters,and the destructive elements sweeping all before
them. 

In these perilous times, those who profess to be God's commandment- keeping
people should guard against the tendency to lose the spirit of reverence and
godly fear. The Scriptures teach men how to approach their Maker-- with
humility and awe, through faith in a divine Mediator. Let man come on bended
knee, as a subject of grace, a suppliant at the footstool of mercy. Thus he
is to testify that the whole soul, body, and spirit are in subjection to his
Creator. 

Both in public and in private worship, it is our duty [THERE ARE INSTANCES
WHERE ELLEN WHITE STOOD AT THE DESK WHILE OFFERING PRAYERS OF CONSECRATION
DURING CHURCH SERVICES.] to bow upon our knees before God when we offer our
petitions to Him. Jesus, our example, "kneeled down, and prayed." And of His
disciples it is recorded that they, too, "kneeled down, and prayed." Stephen
"kneeled." Paul declared: "I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ" (Eph. 3: 14). In confessing before God the sins of Israel, Ezra
knelt. Daniel "kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and
gave thanks before his God" (Dan. 6: 10). And the invitation of the psalmist
is: "O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our
Maker" (Ps. 95: 6). 

"What doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God,
to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with
all thy heart and with all thy soul?" (Deut. 10: 12). . . . "The eye of the
Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy" (Ps. 33:
18). "By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life"
(Prov. 22: 4). 

>From God's Amazing Grace - Page 90