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The Fear of God

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jan 28, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 5.

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The Fear of God

“AMONG the children of God,” said Ruskin, “there is always that fearful and bowed apprehension of his majesty, which is called the fear of God; yet of real and essential fear there is not any, but clinging of confidence to him as their Rock, Fortress, and Deliverer; and perfect love and casting out of fear; so it is not possible that, while the mind is rightly bent on him, there should be dread of anything earthly or supernatural; and the more dreadful seems the height of his majesty, the less fear they feel that dwell in the shadow of it. ‘Of whom shall I be afraid?’”