There are 2 kinds of fear.
Bad fright is based on simulated values as well as unnecessary worries.
Good fright is based on a reasonable agreement of danger, power, circumstances as well as consequences.
It's salubrious fright when a adult woman chooses a well-lit street instead of the back-alley agency home. It's salubrious fright when a human drives to a greater extent than carefully on icy roads.
There's besides salubrious as well as unhealthy fright inwards our human relationship amongst God.
Perfect dearest casts out bad fright (1 John 4:18) because nosotros know that Jesus volition never forsake us, leave of absence us, or impairment us.
But perfect dearest instills a salubrious fright of the Lord inwards us - a fright that is the starting fourth dimension of wisdom (Proverbs 9:10; Psalm 147:11).
Sometimes people define this equally reverence exactly it's to a greater extent than than that.
It's a combination of love, awe, as well as dependence built on an accurate noesis of God's power.
It's knowing nosotros are exactly modest boats on the powerful sea of His loving will.
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