Come and listen, all
you who fear God; let me tell you what he has done for me. Psalm 66:16
In my own being, I could not exist very long as a Christian
without the inner consciousness of the presence and nearness of God! I can only
keep right by keeping the fear of God on my soul and delighting in the
fascinating rapture of worship. I am sorry that the powerful sense of godly
fear is a missing quality in churches today. The fear of God is that
“astonished reverence” of which the saintly Faber wrote. I would say that it
may grade anywhere from its basic element—the terror of the guilty soul before a
holy God—to the fascinated rapture of the worshiping saint. There are few
unqualified things in our lives, but I believe that the reverential fear of
God, mixed with love and fascination and astonishment and adoration, is the
most enjoyable state and the most purifying emotion the human soul can know. A
true fear of God is a beautiful thing, for it is worship; it is love; it is
veneration. It is a high moral happiness because God is!
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