Attitudes, positive to God
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· 1 viewScripture identifies a range of positive attitudes towards God, which believers are encouraged to adopt.
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Trust
Trust
Trust Yahweh with all your heart;
do not lean toward your own understanding.
See also Ps 20:7; Ps 25:1–2; Ps 40:4; Ps 56:11; Jn 14:1; Ro 15:13
Faith
Faith
Now when Jesus heard this, he was astonished, and said to those who were following him, “Truly I say to you, I have found such great faith with no one in Israel.
See also Mt 9:2; Heb 11:1–39
Thankfulness
Thankfulness
give thanks in everything; for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.
See also 1 Ch 16:34; Ps 35:18; Ps 100:4; Mt 14:19; Eph 5:20; Php 4:6; Col 2:7
Praise
Praise
Therefore through him let us offer up a sacrifice of praise continually to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.
See also Ezr 3:11; Ps 148:1–5; Ps 150:1–6; Is 42:10; Is 61:3; Ac 2:46–47; Jas 5:13
Prayerfulness
Prayerfulness
Is anyone among you suffering misfortune? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praise.
See also Mt 14:23; Mt 26:41; Ro 8:26; 1 Th 5:17
Reverence
Reverence
But as for me, through the abundance of your steadfast love
I will enter your house.
I will bow down toward your holy temple in awe of you.
See also Ne 5:15; Mal 2:5; Mal 4:2; Eph 5:21; Heb 12:28; 1 Pe 3:1–2
Watchfulness
Watchfulness
Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving,
See also Lk 12:37–38; 1 Th 5:6–8; 1 Pe 5:8
Hope
Hope
Look, though he kill me, I will hope in him;
however, I will defend my ways before him.
See also Ps 25:5; Is 40:31; Mic 7:7; Ro 4:18
Love
Love
And you shall love Yahweh your God with all of your heart and with all of your soul and with all of your might.
See also Dt 30:6; Ps 18:1; Ps 116:1; Jn 21:15–17
Holiness
Holiness
Heb 12:14; 1 Pe 1:15–16
See also Dt 7:6; Dt 14:1–2; Ro 12:1–2; 1 Co 5:7–8; Col 3:2
Awesome respect
Awesome respect
Now that all has been heard, here is the final conclusion:
Fear God and obey his commandments,
for this is the whole duty of man.
See also Dt 10:12–13; Pr 1:7; Pr 9:10; Je 5:22; Ac 9:31; Re 14:7
Repentance
Repentance
For grief according to the will of God brings about a repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted, but worldly grief brings about death.
See also Job 42:6; Eze 14:6; Ac 2:38; Ac 17:30
Humility
Humility
And my hand has made all these things,
and all these came to be,”
declares Yahweh, “but I look to this one:
to the humble and the contrite of spirit
and the one frightened at my word.
See also Ezr 8:21; Jas 4:10; 1 Pe 5:6
Self-denial
Self-denial
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
Submission
Submission
Therefore subject yourselves to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
See also Job 22:21; Ro 8:7; Ro 10:3