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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