God is love, and it is because He first loved us that He sent His only Son to die for us. This should invoke a profound gratitude for what God has done for us.
Regardless of what God has done, however, He is still worthy of our praise simply for who He is. This reverence is sometimes lost in many believers, I think.
Psalm 11:10 says, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom..." The fear of God is echoed in many scriptural passages. With the predominant message from most pulpits emphasizing the love of God, at least as I have heard, I think we [believers] miss out on understanding, and respecting this healthy fear of God. Perhaps our understanding of who God is gets somewhat contorted. From my experience, developing this respectful fear of God helps me revere the Lord, regardless of what He has done or will do. What do you think?
2006-07-22 03:13:24 · 9 answers · asked by BowtiePasta 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is gratitude we should have toward God for what He has done for us.
There is also reverence for God that we also ought to have that is not dependent on God's actions. God is worthy of praise for who He is.
I did not mean that in any way to sound like I was attacking God...sorry for the confusion Debi_K.
2006-07-22 03:29:34 · update #1
I think you are on to something improtant.
Have you done a Scriptural word study of the word 'fear'?
2006-07-22 03:23:03 · answer #1 · answered by Puzzler 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the more you learn and come to love God the more fear of God you have. Fear is not to be taken as something bad but reverence, respect, and knowledge that he is the only way we truly have. We cannot have salvation with out faith The fear I feel is that some people will never except Christ in this life or the life to come and will chose to be cast away rather than except his salvation.
2006-07-22 03:23:06 · answer #2 · answered by saintrose 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is 111:10,I am sure you noticed and could not edit.
The word FEAR is used to mean respect and reverence.
Any who truly consider God do feel awe and insignificance.That said modern religious tenants are sadly lacking in Biblical education.Grace is wonderful but what must it have been like for Christ to bear all our sin,he who had not sinned and did not know it.
2006-07-22 03:44:05 · answer #3 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fear
The fear of God is not to be confused with "morbid dread".
Rather the fear of God is the same as the fear that guides a person to consider anothers feelings so as to maintain relationships in good standing. In other words, we can be friends of God if we have fear that will prevent us from doing things that would damage that friendship.
2006-07-22 03:16:41 · answer #4 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fear of God is defined as a love for Him and a hatred of sin. It is not fear of what He can do.
2006-07-22 03:18:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the 2d you ought to determine what's your individual genuine handle, you would be conscious of the handle simultenuously. you're extensive wide awake of your actual physique and all its events and prerequisites, of your concepts -happy, unhappy, lazy, etc.etc. -, of your individual psychological ability and of direction you ought to replace into conscious of the gadgets of your 5 organs of understanding; to that end conscious/awaken to the perceived international in waking state, conscious of your dreaming state as additionally you're conscious of your sound sleep the final evening. to that end, you are the concern and your physique concepts and mind and the worldly issues all are gadgets in basic terms. in fact you nonetheless stay via snoozing, dreaming and waking to the worldly gadgets and for this reason you be conscious of no longer precisely What Your organic Self. Hindu Scriptures logically clarify that your individual organic actual Self is what's in any different case pointed to as a results of fact the BRAHMA, the main suitable fact. Ignorants have self belief that there is a heaven and there the God is latest etc. needless to say i could desire to be conscious of earlier to heaven the place he replaced into living?
2016-12-10 12:09:56 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you should just grow up and quit believing in fantasies and fables; they are a waste of time.
2006-07-22 03:16:41 · answer #7 · answered by ceprn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm not clear on what you are asking. what do you mean, regardless of what he has done? it sounds like you are blaming him for some kind of wrong. i'm not trying to attack you, just trying to understand what you mean.
2006-07-22 03:23:50 · answer #8 · answered by Debi K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know
2006-07-22 03:17:01 · answer #9 · answered by eltonben10 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋