3:5). It is a fear that, as Charles Spurgeon put it, “leans toward the Lord” because of his very goodness.2 Take another surprising example of this fear, from when the Lord appears to Jacob at Bethel. Again, the Lord utters not one word of threat but only promise after promise of grace: Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran. And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that