The first sort of right fear is the weak-kneed and trembling response to the fact that God is the Creator. It appreciates—indeed, it enjoys—that God is splendid in his transcendence, above and beyond creation. God is holy, majestic, perfect, all-powerful, and dazzling in all his perfections. This fear considers the Creator and is left staggered, like David, asking, “What is man that you are mindful of him?” (Ps. 8:4). In the light of God’s eternal magnificence, self-existence, and unswerving constancy, this fear feels what fleeting and fickle little things we humans are.
