The Meaning of Fearing God - Part III: Justice
6th May 2006
“Fearing God,” says Susan L. Prince, one of my commenters, “is a hard concept to grasp, and I can’t help but wonder if the Church, and it’s lack of practicing what it preaches, is what causes Christians to not properly fear.” Another commenter, The Artist, suggested that instead of fear, we might construe it as “an `overwhelming awe’ at `God’s Immensity’”. Both, I believe are expressing the difficulty that I have explored in previous posts on this topic.
In my first post in this series, I described the tension between the concept of “fear of the LORD” and “the perfect love” of God that drives out fear. In my next couple of posts, I began to unpack what Psalm 34 teaches about “fear of the LORD”. According to the Psalmist, fearing God is not just about Read the rest of this entry »
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