Monday, July 28, 2008
Fear of God
Okay, as I keep on reading in the OYB I keep coming across "fear of God." This is a puzzling concept because we spend so much time talking about how God is kind and merciful. We ask for his blessing and grace daily. We thank him for his generosity and mercy, yet the bible speaks of the need for fear. This fear cannot mean the same thing in the bible that it means to us today. If that's the case, then what does it mean?
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Found this on biblegateway.com
Fear of the Lord
is in the Old Testament used as a designation of true piety (Prov. 1:7; Job 28:28; Ps. 19:9). It is a fear conjoined with love and hope, and is therefore not a slavish dread, but rather filial reverence. (Comp. Deut. 32:6; Hos. 11:1; Isa. 1:2; 63:16; 64:8.) God is called "the Fear of Isaac" (Gen. 31:42, 53), i.e., the God whom Isaac feared.
A holy fear is enjoined also in the New Testament as a preventive of carelessness in religion, and as an incentive to penitence (Matt. 10:28; 2 Cor. 5:11; 7:1; Phil. 2:12; Eph. 5:21; Heb. 12:28, 29).
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