SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 1:17 NIV Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear.
THOUGHT: Over the course of my life, I’ve had the privilege of hearing several foreign-born nationals speak about becoming citizens. I have been struck, in every case, with their humility, clarity of purpose, and love for their adopted country. They exude a reverent fear. I need their example, and recent testimonies have reawakened something in my own heart of love for country and awe of freedom.
We’re all going to a new country. There will be incredible joy, clarity of purpose, authentic humility, fair and honest government, and perfected love. But while we’re on this foreign soil, the extraordinary judge of that country watches how we live before we take the journey there. The way we live here matters to the way we will live there, and reverent fear is the coin of the realm.
PRAYER: Lord, help me see the world here as you see it and give me the gifts of forbearance and kindness, so that I might walk here as Jesus did, in reverent fear.
Amy released a full-length book in early 2021, Walking When You’d Rather Fly: Meditations on Faith After the Fall. Maybe you’d like to check it out here.
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