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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hello, thank you for listening to your Daily

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Speaker 1: Bible Verse, the podcast that examines one verse each day

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Speaker 1: to learn more about God and his will for us.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, joy A Williams, and after this short

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Speaker 1: word from our sponsor, will dive into today's Bible verse,

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Speaker 1: Psalm twenty five, verse twelve. Today's Bible verse comes from

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Speaker 1: Psalm twenty five, verse twelve, and it says, who then,

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Speaker 1: are those who fear the Lord? He will instruct them

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Speaker 1: in the ways they should choose Well, David, the writer

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Speaker 1: of this Psalm, often pairs God's promises with God's requirements,

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Speaker 1: and in today's verse, the focus is on how choosing

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Speaker 1: to worship God gives us access to the ways of God. Now,

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Speaker 1: daily I'm faced with countless choices, from the priorities of

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Speaker 1: my schedule to the dynamics of relationships, and yes, my

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Speaker 1: constant need to adapt to what's unexpected. And you probably

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Speaker 1: have a similar list for the choices you're making right now. Well,

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Speaker 1: Psalm twenty five tells us, as we face life's choices,

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Speaker 1: we also need god worship at the center of those choices. Now,

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Speaker 1: this worship is not just referring to our attending church services,

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Speaker 1: although that is certainly worshiped too, But the worship in

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Speaker 1: this verse refer to worshiping God as a way of life. Therefore,

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Speaker 1: I noticed that today's Bible verse begins with the question.

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Speaker 1: It asks who then fears the Lord. It's one of

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Speaker 1: those questions that should give us a pause to think

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Speaker 1: about and some personal reflection, but it could also fuel

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Speaker 1: us with godly passion. Now, when we think about other

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Speaker 1: types of fear, like fearing anyone or anything else other

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Speaker 1: than God, it makes us anxious, cautious, or it puts

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Speaker 1: us in a panic. But the Amplified Bible's translation of

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Speaker 1: Psalm twenty five, verse twelve describes fearing the Lord as

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Speaker 1: having an all inspired reverence and submissive wonder. So when

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Speaker 1: we hear the phrase fear the Lord, think worshipful awe

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Speaker 1: and submissive wonder. Let's talk about both of those for

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Speaker 1: a moment. So worshipful all means we're so aware and

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Speaker 1: yet so overwhelmed by who God is. It creates a

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Speaker 1: sense of all He is to all of its creation,

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Speaker 1: and to who He is to us personally. Now, this

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Speaker 1: reverential awe is not restrictive, it's instructive. It is the

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Speaker 1: determination that God alone is worthy to be honored, exalted, obeyed,

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Speaker 1: and praised. Therefore we worship Him with our words, with

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Speaker 1: a song, with a prayer, and ultimately with our lives.

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Speaker 1: So let's look at submissive wonder. I love that term,

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Speaker 1: and to me it means I am so convinced and

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Speaker 1: enthralled by who God is that I willingly submit all

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Speaker 1: that I am to all of who He is. All

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Speaker 1: of my questions, my hopes, any worries, and everything that

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Speaker 1: makes me me submits to and delights in what makes

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Speaker 1: God God. So as you think of worshipful awe submissive wonder,

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Speaker 1: what comes to mind for you? Now? Again, when we're

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Speaker 1: afraid of something else or someone else other than God,

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Speaker 1: we become desperate for protection from that vulnerability. It's something

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Speaker 1: we want to avoid. But in today's Bible verse, we

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Speaker 1: are told if we live life in all of God,

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Speaker 1: we become worshipful even in our vulnerabilities. We are drawn

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Speaker 1: to Him in submissive wonder. And when we fear God,

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Speaker 1: we need not fear anything else. Because in the world,

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Speaker 1: where we face countless choices, we each have free will

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Speaker 1: the power to make our own choices. But bibically eternally,

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Speaker 1: the most important choice we can make is the place

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Speaker 1: our faith in Jesus Christ for the salvation of our souls.

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Speaker 1: So is there a situation where you could really use

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Speaker 1: God's guidance? Let's think about that. And instead of us

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Speaker 1: coming to him like he should respond to the questions

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Speaker 1: that we have like they're in the search bar of

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Speaker 1: our soul, what if we came to him in reverence

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Speaker 1: not just to get an answer, but because He is

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Speaker 1: the answer. And a heart that has this posture has

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Speaker 1: God's attention, because a heart that worships the Lord is

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Speaker 1: determined and to please the Lord. Let's go to him

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Speaker 1: in prayer. Even now, Dear God, we worship you because

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Speaker 1: you are God, and you are good, even when life

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Speaker 1: is not. May we have a worshipful life, the kind

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Speaker 1: that exalts you and obeys you and adores you, and yes,

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Speaker 1: a heart that trusts you. May it be that kind

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Speaker 1: of worship that grows because of our faith in Christ

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Speaker 1: and because our choices matter. Father, strengthen us and help

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Speaker 1: us to know your instructions, which are written in your

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Speaker 1: word the Bible, so we will know the way we

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Speaker 1: should choose. And this is our prayer in Jesus' nay

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Speaker 1: amen