I WILL and they SHALL
" I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me." —Jeremiah 32:40 [KJV] I WILL and they SHALL. Such is God's gracious way of saving His people: while proud legal hearts and self-righteous spirits, puffed up with notions of free-will, are ever contending for terms and conditions to be performed by dead sinners in order to be saved; or by creatures, insufficient of themselves to think a good thought, to secure and make effectual salvation to their own souls. But this fear of God is a blessing of the covenant of grace. Naturally the fear of God is not in our hearts. It is one black mark of an unregenerate person, "he has no fear of God before his eyes." How awful! how deplorable is this! Yet, naturally we fear not the power of the Lord, nor dread His wrath: nor are we at all sensible of our danger. What wonder of love! What matter of thankfulness, that the Lord hath put His fear in thy heart, O Christian! The fear of the Lor...