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These examples highlight the multifaceted nature of fear in the Bible, including fear of consequences, fear of inadequacy, fear of enemies, and the transformative power of encountering God’s presence and reassurance.
28 Μαρ 2023 · Psalm 2:11 sums it up perfectly: “Serve the LORD with fear and rejoice with trembling.” We work out our salvation by going to the very source of our salvation—the Word of God—wherein we renew our hearts and minds (Romans 12:1-2), coming into His presence with a spirit of reverence and awe.
1) What is the fear of God? 2) Why should we, in fact, fear God? 3) How do you fear God—if you do fear Him—how do you do it? There is a lot in the Psalms and Proverbs that speaks about the fear of God. In Proverbs 1, we read:
When the Bible refers to the “fear of the Lord,” it means having a deep respect, reverence and awe for God’s power and authority. Rather than causing someone to be afraid of God, a proper “fear of the Lord” leads one to love Him.
Being afraid is the very first human emotion the Bible explicitly mentions. It appears immediately when the ‘Fall’ into the world of sense-experience is initiated by eating from the Tree of Knowledge. In the biblical account, fear appears to be joined with all that we experience in the earthly world.
29 Ιουλ 2020 · The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. (NIV) This is what the New Bible Dictionary says about fear: [Holy Fear] comes from the believer's apprehension of the living God.
16 Φεβ 2019 · Fear is a normal human emotion designed by God to alert us to danger so that we will take action against it. It has a purpose. It tells us to take precautions, to be wise in our dealings with strangers and strange situations.
