Fear of the Lord

We had a great discussion this past Sunday in our Sunday School class at church and I thought it would be interesting to write about it as a follow up.

We were looking at Psalm 19 and verse 9 says “The fear of the LORD is pure” (NIV) and our teacher said that often the word fear is explained to mean awe or reverence. He then went on to ask what we thought about that. Someone said if it said fear it means to fear and that they indeed had fear of the Lord. I came home and looked up the Hebrew word used for fear in this verse. Strong’s defines it as a noun meaning, fear, reverence, piety. This same word is also translated in the KJV as dreadful and exceedingly afraid.

So, here are my questions –

Do you fear the Lord?

Should you fear the Lord?

I would love to hear your thoughts, and so as not to bias you, I’ll wait a few days before posting my thoughts as a comment. You of course know I have an opinion, wouldn’t be me if I didn’t.

So, ponder and comment. FYI, we never even got to the “pure” part in class.

Choose Joy!