Proverbs 1:7



"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge"
-Proverbs 1:7 [KJV]

Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God's majesty, that has had a vision of God's awful greatness, His ineffable holiness, His perfect righteousness, His irresistible power, His Sovereign grace. Does someone say, "But it is only the unsaved, those outside of Christ, who need to fear God"? Then the sufficient answer is that the saved, those who are in Christ, are admonished to work out their own salvation with "fear and trembling" (Philippians 2:12). Time was when it was the general custom to speak of a believer as a "God-fearing man"-that such an appellation has become nearly extinct only serves to show whither we have drifted. Nevertheless, it still stands written "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear Him" (Psalm 103:13)!


-Gospel report by preacher Arthur W. Pink, excerpt from 'The Sovereignty of God'

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