Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid, #2

Death ends all opportunity. This life is our one and only opportunity to live and act in view of eternity. God wants us to fear Him. Solomon said fear is the “beginning of knowledge” (Proverbs 1:7). If we can start with this perspective of God, the knowledge obtained from that point on will be properly “filtered.”

No one is going to escape facing God on Judgment Day (Revelation 20:11-15). Those who had a healthy fear of God and operated out of that fear (obeying God) will have nothing about which to be concerned.

Evildoers ought to “Be afraid. Be very afraid!” This kind of fear is a genuine attitude for one to have toward God. There is nothing frivolous about this kind of fear. Nobody wants the kind of fear that equates to horror, but the godly fear – which is reverence – is productive.