if the people are ever to fear God aright, with wonder and not with dread, they need leaders who have that right fear and who model it in how they live and how they talk every day. Fear is a state of the heart, but one we have seen in Scripture that often manifests itself physically. In other words, fear will out. The presence or absence of fear in a leader should, to some extent, be sensed by the people. It should be something—perhaps unnamable but beautifully Christlike—in the atmosphere around him. He should be clearly affected by the beauty and glory and majesty and goodness of God.
