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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...

Shorter Catechism, which tells us, “Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.” They are describing the same truth. When the Preacher calls us to fear God, he is calling us precisely to the enjoyment of God that Westminster calls the chief end of man. The nature of the living God means that the fear which pleases him is not a groveling, shrinking fear. He is no tyrant. It is an ecstasy of love and joy that senses how overwhelmingly kind and magnificent, good and true God is, and
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