Psalm 34:4 KJV I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. God always hears. Being everwhere and knowing all things, He cannot not hear. And to all He hears, He answers. Because God is agape love, He cannot 1 answer, anymore than He cannot not hear. Psalm 34 is "a Psalm of David when he changed his behavior before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed." Whether you a king, psalmist, called, or direct ancestor of Christ, we all get afraid. So to the Christian, the question is not should we fear, but what should we do when we are afraid? The testimony of Psalm 34:4 is that we should seek the LORD even in our fear! I dare say, especially in our fear. When a scared man sought the LORD, the LORD heard him. By stating what God did, David is also sharing what God not do! The LORD did not ignore him. The LORD did not condemn him. The LORD did not shame him. The LORD did not call him out. The LORD did not just hear him. Rather, The LORD Jehovah heard and delivered him! He listened and moved. The God who is Love, agape love, has empathy and action on behalf of a scared man who would be king. It's not just deliverence from the failures of sin that God offers through faith in His Son Jesus Christ, but He gifts us freedom from the very fear of it. No looking over our shoulder because in Christ there is no looking back. No looking down because in Christ there is no hanging our head in shame. Only hanging our hopes (and fears) on the One who hears and delivers from fears - whatever and whomever they are!
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