Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him! For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm. -Psalm 33.8
I recently heard someone make this statement, and it came back to me as I prayed through Psalm 33 today.
As worshippers, we are to fear God and nothing else.
Fear takes all kinds of forms. Fear of failure. Fear of sickness. Fear of embarrassment. Fear of people's disapproval. Fear of hurting a person's feelings. Yet there's only one form that fear should take in our lives.
We fear the Lord. We stand in awe of him. We reverence him. We approach him confidently, yet cautiously.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and this is why. If we embrace the right fear the right way, we strip the power away from the wrong fears.
So we are at once fearful and fearless--full of fear and free of it at the same time.
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