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NASB | Proverbs 22:4 The reward of humility and the fear of the LORD Are riches, honor and life. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Proverbs 22:4 The reward of humility [that is, having a realistic view of one's importance] and the [reverent, worshipful] fear of the LORD Is riches, honor, and life. [Prov 21:21] |
Subject: A Fear of the Lord encompasses what? |
Bible Note: That is good. So many of us act on our emotions without thinking, and we may find out afterwards that we have sinned. And it is still true that the payment for sin is death. There is that consequence attached to it (Romans 6). We are thankful that there is no hell, no eternal bad consequence, for us who are trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 8). That is what the Lord calls the second death (Revelation 21). But there is a death that we experience while living, when the soul shrivels up and withers and dies (Romans 8). It is a temporary separation from fellowship with God (1 Timothy 5). We are thankful those who die can live again, and those who are separated from God can return to him. This is what we experienced when we were born again; we died and rose again in him. And he constantly calls on his children to come back. He says we should draw near to him and he will draw near to us (James 4). To be near to him is life (Psalm 16). To be away from him is death (Romans 8). There is a sense in which we are never separated from him because he never leaves us not forsakes us. His Spirit is in us. But we can quench and grieve the Spirit by willful sinning to the point that he is passive and not striving with us. Our fellowship with God is broken, and for a time he seems to cease to speak to us (Psalm 22,28). The child of God senses that and grieves about it, and that godly sorrow leads to repentance and restoration to fellowship with God. And we are never separated from the love of God (Romans 8). As the father for the prodigal son, our Father longs to have us back, and there is joy in heaven over one who repents. But it is good to hear him say too, “Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine”; it is good also to never stray from him. Doubtless will slip from time to time and fall. But with the help of the Spirit we are aware of it and we repent immediately and turn back. We cannot seek the pleasures of sin and fellowship with God at the same time. We respect him too much to try to bring sin into his presence. He is holy and he requires us to be holy. And he provides the means, the blood, to keep us so. The cross of Christ reminds us how seriously God takes the fact of sin. He turned away from Jesus when he took our sin, and he poured his judgment upon him. His holiness and his justice both required that. So I agree with you, my friend. The fear of the Lord will cause us all to stay away from sin. |
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