Comments on: What Does It Mean To Fear God? http://www.theblazingcenter.com/2008/09/what-does-it-mean-to-fear-god.html Connecting God's Truth to Real Life Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:21:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mark Altrogge http://www.theblazingcenter.com/2008/09/what-does-it-mean-to-fear-god.html/comment-page-1#comment-3821 Mark Altrogge Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:01:10 +0000 http://www.theblazingcenter.com/?p=1029#comment-3821 Wow Kim, What an excellent comment! Brilliant insight by John Piper. Thanks for writing this. Wow Kim,

What an excellent comment! Brilliant insight by John Piper. Thanks for writing this.

]]> By: Kim http://www.theblazingcenter.com/2008/09/what-does-it-mean-to-fear-god.html/comment-page-1#comment-3819 Kim Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:00:52 +0000 http://www.theblazingcenter.com/?p=1029#comment-3819 On page 198 of Pleasures of God, John Piper gives a great analogy of this that has stuck with me. He describes getting trapped in a terrible storm where your only hope is a small cleft to hide in. He writes: At first there was the fear that this terrible storm and awesome terrain might claim your life. But then you found refuge and gained the hope that you would be safe. But not everything in the feeling called fear vanished from your heart. Only the life-threatening part. There remained the trembling, the awe, the wonder, the feeling that you would never want to tangle with such a storm or be the adversary of such a power...The fear of God is what is left of the storm when you have a safe place to watch right in the middle of it. God is not only the storm, but the refuge from the storm. He gets the glory for both His fearsomeness and His protection in Christ. On page 198 of Pleasures of God, John Piper gives a great analogy of this that has stuck with me. He describes getting trapped in a terrible storm where your only hope is a small cleft to hide in. He writes:
At first there was the fear that this terrible storm and awesome terrain might claim your life. But then you found refuge and gained the hope that you would be safe. But not everything in the feeling called fear vanished from your heart. Only the life-threatening part. There remained the trembling, the awe, the wonder, the feeling that you would never want to tangle with such a storm or be the adversary of such a power…The fear of God is what is left of the storm when you have a safe place to watch right in the middle of it.

God is not only the storm, but the refuge from the storm. He gets the glory for both His fearsomeness and His protection in Christ.

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