Homilist 1 Samuel 12:24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he has done for you. I. THAT MAN CAN REVERENCE GOD. "Only fear the Lord" Reverence implies: — 1. A sense of Divine greatness. For none can reverence the contemptible or the small 2. A sense of Divine excel. lance. For none can reverence the morally unworthy. II. THAT MAN CAN SERVE GOD. "Serve Him in truth with all your heart." There is a sense in which all things serve God. 1. Some serve Him without their will. All the masses of matter, organised and inorganised, serve Him. 2. Some serve Him with their will. All rational existences do this, and moving thus they serve Him. 3. Some serve Him against their will. All fiends human and angelic do this III. THAT MAN CAN CONSIDER GOD. "Consider how great things He hath done for you." Man can reflect on God, both on what He is in Himself and on what He does. What other creatures on this earth can do this? The eagle that pierces the clouds with a power of vision keener, and a range wider than ours, returns from its lofty flight to its lonely eyrie without one thought of God, (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you. |
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