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The Surprising Good News of the Fear of the Lord. The Bible says that a wise person fears God and keeps his commandments. But what does it actually mean to rightly fear God while also trusting him? In What Does It Mean to Fear the Lord?, Michael Reeves calls Christians to see God as the object of their fear—a fear marked not by anxiety, but by enjoyment of God. In Scripture, God’s people are...

it.” And he was afraid and said, “How awesome [fearful] is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.” (Gen. 28:10–17) The Lord promises to bless and increase Jacob, to be with him and to keep him, never to leave him, and to fulfill all his good purposes for him. And in the face of pure goodness and absolute grace, Jacob fears. John Bunyan concluded that this right fear flows primarily from a sense of the love and kindness of God to the soul … from some
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