Psalm 119 v 119-120 reads ,'All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross. My flesh trembles in fear of you',he is speaking about the Lord,I stand in awe of your laws'.Unlike the wicked he loves God's word,he is very conscious of his unworthiness so much so that he trembles in fear before a holy God. Michael Wilcox writes on the psalmist ,'trembling in fear, says ,'Let us not assume complacently that that ' merely means reverence.'. Verse 120 is about the shudder of dread;' For our God is a consuming fire'.(Hebrew 12 v29) Of course the fear of God does mean reverence also ,we must always remember whom God is, He is not our old pal,or our bosom friend He is God and must be treated with reverence, always bearing in mind that we must not act in ways that offend Him.Consider what our Saviour said,' And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell'(Matthew 10 v 28) The unsaved care to ignore this truth,alas to their cost, hell is real as sure as heaven is real,every knee shall one day bow before Him,the unsaved in dread and anguish,as they await their terrible fate.the saved will bow before Him,in gratitude and thankfulness for the mercy shown to them,in saving them,from a fate worse than death.
'Fear God'
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