"The fear of our God”
is not the servile dread of a slave toward a master but the loving respect
of a child toward a parent. To fear the Lord means to seek to glorify
God in everything we do. It means listening to His Word, honoring it,
and obeying it. “The remarkable thing about fearing God,” wrote Oswald
Chambers, “is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if
you do not fear God, you fear everything else.” Because Nehemiah’s life
was motivated by the fear of the Lord (Neh. 5:15), he did not fear what
the enemy might do (vv. 14, 19). The fear of the Lord moved Nehemiah to
be a faithful servant of the Lord. Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Preach-the-Gospel.com
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