Deuteronomy 13:4 It is the Lord your God you must follow, and Him you must revere. Keep His commands and obey Him; serve Him and hold fast to Him. (Even though He more than deserves our utmost honor and reverence, still, we get to choose the place where we put our heart's desires. As we come to know Who God is, we are bound to honor Him with a reverence for and a holy fear of the Lord, a fear that rises out of complete and utter awe of this Holy and Righteous God and accompanied by a compelling desire to submit to Him and serve Him. When we see Him for Who He is, we cannot help but choose to hold fast to Him, an allusion in the Hebrew that refers to the same kind of binding together when a husband cleaves to His wife or a wife to her husband. The Lord has made Himself our husband and we are the Bride of Christ, cleaving to Him as He to us. Only as we incorporate His ways into our daily days, only as we obey His ways, only as we live our lives serving Him,
and only as we cleave to Him, fasten ourselves to Him, join ourselves to Him, and fasten our grip on Him as tightly as bone is linked to skin,
only then can we learn to honor and revere Him from the fullness of who we are.
Then, as we pursue Him, as we catch Him through our active and focused pursuit of Him,
He fills up our vision and life destiny with the fullness of Who He is.)
