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The Connection Between the Fear of God and Justification

13 Friday Oct 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Dying to Self, Entering His Rest, Faith, Fear of Death, God's Grace, God's Holiness, God's Love, joy, Judgment, Justification, Living in the Presence of God, My Spiritual Diary, peace, Repentance, Righteousness, suffering, The Fear of God, The Fear of the Lord

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Garden in Weihenstephan (Upper Bavaria)

The following is an excerpt of a (not published) book I wrote about seven years ago. I just translated a text of my journal which should clarify that the experience of the fear of God and being justified by Him usually go hand in hand.

To separate awe from God from an everyday, natural fear is not easy. For it is real fear as other languages ​​also make clear:

Gottesfurcht (German)

crainte de Dieu (French)

timore di Dio (Italian)

temor de Dios (Spanish)

The fear of God is, above all, the fear of displeasing God by transgressing His commandments. I believe a further difference compared with other fears is that our natural anxieties cause narrowness inside our mind and make us think of running away from a frightening situation. “Cut and run!” the thief might think when suddenly confronted with the policeman. He, too, is, or at least should be frightened when he must face governmental authority. Nevertheless, it might happen that the thief, instead, goes over to attacking the authority figure when he realizes that his getaway route has been cut off.

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Hope… in spite of it all

20 Monday Mar 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, Discerning the Spirits, entering the Kingdom of God, Exhortation, Following Jesus, Friendship with God, God our Father, God's Voice, grace, Growing in Christ, Healing, Hope, Prayer, Spiritual Leadership, Submission to God, suffering

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Restaurant “Alte Veste” (Zirndorf/Bavaria)
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Before going to bed I read Oswald Chambers’ devotional on “Friendship with God” which I will copy and paste further below. Although I read that one before and would believe it was true, I always felt that there was something missing. God who does neither act logically nor chronically as we might like it, revealed the missing piece to me a few hours before I would read this devotional.

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What grieves me…

26 Sunday Feb 2017

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in adultery, Building up the Body of Christ, Church, Church Disicipline, compassion, Deception, Delusion, Discerning the Spirits, Divorce, Exhortation, False Spirits, False Teachers, Fellowship, God's guidance, grace, Life in the Kingdom of God, My Spiritual Diary, Prayer, Preaching, Remarriage, Repentance, Satan, Spiritual Leadership, Uncategorized

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Photo by Susanne Schuberth

Photo by Susanne Schuberth

God alone knows our hearts and why we do what we do. From hence, we have no right to judge others wrongly and condemn them. However, we need to know with which people we can be open and which people we should beware of. Just yesterday I had two seemingly similar, yet also different experiences.

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I AM the Resurrection

26 Saturday Nov 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Building up the Body of Christ, comfort, Death, Encouragement, Eternal Life, Faith, Family and Friends, grace, Hope, Life and Death, My Spiritual Diary, Power of His Resurrection, Salvation, Seeking the Truth, The Bible, The Final Judgment

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Letting Go of Psychological Time (Picture taken from http://riverbankoftruth.com/)

When time as we know it comes to an end, eternity in Christ begins.
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Just lately I felt concerned about those who are grieved because they do not know whether their loved ones will be saved or not. Even looking closely at other people, we sometimes perceive no outward sign of faith in Jesus Christ. BUT that does not mean that they won’t be saved!

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Sin does not equal sin or… God only judges the heart

18 Sunday Sep 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Authority, Discerning the Spirits, Entering His Rest, Exhortation, Fellowship, Forgiveness, grace, Judgment, Light and Darkness, truth

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Fall Has Come... (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

Fall Has Come…
(Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

While typing the headline, I myself just wondered about the wording of this title. You and I know what sin is when we read or talk about it, however, is it possible that there are differences of motives when we fall in sin? I was just thinking about the Pharisees who by condemning a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery basically did no wrong thing according to their own law as they wanted to stone her. The Jews indeed had the right to judge those who belonged to them, just as they had no right to do so with others who were no Jews like the Gentiles. But here stood Jesus who represented the end of the Old Covenant, the end of the law for all those who believe in Him (cf. Rom 10:4). He alone was the One who could show grace to this poor woman “for the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (Jn 1:17 ESV)

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Enjoying Life by Obeying God or… The Choice of Life and Death

10 Sunday Jul 2016

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Entering His Rest, Entering the Promised Land, Eternal Life, Exhortation, Family and Friends, God's Grace, Idolatry, Life and Death, My Spiritual Diary, New Self, Old Self, Other Gods, Suffering and Joy, Unbelief, Walking in the Spirit

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Some Wildflowers on the Balcony (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

Some Wildflowers on the Balcony
(Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

God spoke to me a few minutes ago through the following Scriptures. He made them alive particularly by emphasizing the word TODAY. You can read this word five times in these verses. As many might know, five is the number that stands for GRACE. Just to give you a few hints as for the context in which God spoke to me, I can tell you that I had a struggle regarding a decision on how to react (or not) to someone’s misbehavior that put them in more or less big trouble. If you love someone, you might know how difficult it is to not intervene when you see things go downhill. So, my heart was very troubled about this trial as God pointed out to me that NOW it was my choice to turn to Him and to obey Him instead of trying to ‘save’ someone I love. If I obeyed Him, all things would turn out well, He said. Below you can read the Bible verses that reached my heart and comforted me immediately.

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