If we fear the Lord and walk in His ways then we are blessed. Was does it mean to be blessed? It means we walk in the favour of God.
We will eat the fruit of our labour and know blessings and prosperity. Now if you regularly read this blog you will know I give frequent warnings against some forms of prosperity teaching. However, this verse (and others like it) are a warning against going to the other extreme. We would all get on better if we lived in fear of obedience to the Lord. Our prospects are better because we fear the Lord.
The best thing to do is to look at Jesus. When we see the gospels we see that Jesus did not live in fear or anxiety. He always had all that He needed. The closer we walk with Jesus, the more Christlike we become, the more true of us this will become as well. But we will also share more in His sufferings as well.
Finally, we need to remember that after Christ returns there will be no more suffering, no more tears, no more death. There is a time when all the trouble of this world will be gone forever.
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