"THERE IS NONE LIKE UNTO THEE, O LORD." He alone made us and all things. He only is greatly to be feared. To fear God means faith in His word, trust in His person, zeal for His glory, and a genuine love for His commandments. In worship it signifies reverence, adoration, thanksgiving, and prayer. Worship without the heart is worthless. But often in worship we feel our hearts distracted and wandering far from God! Well may we pray, "Unite my heart to fear Thy name," seeking the Lord to calm it, compose it and inflame it; that it may devote all its energies into God's service. Such a prayer proves our love for the service, our desire to honour God in it, aware of our own weakness, and our desire to obtain grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. But do all saints feel their hearts thus prone to wander, and find it difficult to engage in the Lord's service? This is a common failing among Christians, some more and some less. Let all true God-lovers pray as David, "O that my ways were directed to keep Thy statutes always."

For Meditation:
How oft my heart's affections yield,
Scattered o'er all the world's wide field;
My vagrant passions, Lord, reclaim,
Unite them all to fear Thy name.