“The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” By A.W. Pink
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Prov. 1:7).
Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God’s majesty, that has had a vision of God’s awful greatness, His ineffable holiness, His perfect righteousness, His irresistible power, His sovereign grace.
Fear
Does someone say,
“But it is only the unsaved, those outside of Christ, who need to fear God”?
Then the sufficient answer is that the saved, those who are in Christ, are admonished to work out their own salvation with “fear and trembling.”
Time was when it was the general custom to speak of a believer as a “God-fearing man.” That such an appellation has become nearly extinct only serves to show whither we have drifted. Nevertheless, it still stands written, “Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him” (Psalm 103:13).
When we speak of godly fear, of course we do not mean a servile fear, such as prevails among the heathen inconnection with their gods. No, we mean that spirit which Jehovah is pledged to bless, that spirit to which the prophet referred when he said, “To this man will I (the Lord) look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word” (Isa. 66:2).
It was this the apostle had in view when he wrote, “Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king” (I Pet: 2:17).
Nothing will foster this godly fear like a recognition of the Sovereign Majesty of God.
What you are talking about could also be called "applying the blood." When the children of Israel were delivered from the angel of death as they left Egypt they had to apply the blood to then doors of their dwellings. The death angel "passed over their homes because the blood was applied. In the New Covenant the blood of Jesus is applied when we speak. Our declaration of faith is how we apply, or plead the blood in our dispensation.
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