Discipling Men, Inc.

After school one day in the sixth grade a bunch of guys “borrowed” a small motorcycle (really a motorized scooter). When it was my turn to drive, I drove it into a tree. That day, we all waited in the principal’s office for our fathers to arrive. We all trembled at the words of the principal and trembled at the words of our fathers. I often preferred a spanking from my father instead of what we all referred to as “The Talk”. Colonel Fred Riley caused one to tremble at his words.

 

When Habakkuk realized the magnitude of what God was doing in using the Babylonians against the nation of Judah to discipline them, Habakkuk physically responded by trembling at the Word.

 

Habakkuk 3: 16 record him as saying that his body trembled, his lips quivered and rottenness entered his bones.

 

Hearing and fearing was an Old Testament pattern when the nation realized the seriousness of God’s ways. Deut. 17:13, Deut. 19:20 and Deut. 21:21.

 

Daniel heard God speak to him through a dream and trembled at the magnitude of what God was saying as recorded in Daniel 7: 15,
 “I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me”.

 

Isaiah (66:2) records the true worshiper as the one who trembles at the Word of God,
“But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at My word.”

 

The Psalmist (119:120) records one who loves the Word as one who trembles,
“My flesh trembles for fear of You”  

 

One man in the men’s ministry wisely asked me, “This is such a foreign concept to today’s thinking, that men would tremble at His Word, how we can get back to this?”
I answered Him that perhaps we need to go to the Lord alone and ask Him if there was any presumptuous way in us.

 

That we would pray to Him that He would mercifully reveal this to us.

 

Then we would ask Him to enable us to repent fully of it.

 

Perhaps we need not to take His Word so lightly.

 

Perhaps we need to see it as applicable not to another but to us, each one of us as the sacred Word of God that it is.

 

There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. We are forgiven and heaven bound. We are also admonished not to fear or to worry. This devotional is directed to those of us who are proud, who are presumptuous in neglecting the Word, or our shallow rote reading of the Word, studying of the Word and applying the Word.  Perhaps we should see this devotional as not only applying to specific sin in our lives, but as well to our whole attitude about the One in whom we live, and move, and have our being.

 

When was the last time we?

 

“Trembled at His Word”