The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

by John Paul Bevere

We are human, and we will fear. The awe and fear of God is way deeper, more beautiful, and more intimate than many dare imagine. The fear of God swallows up all destructive fears. The fear of God is the beginning of everything good.

fear God is to reverence and be in complete awe of Him. To fear God is to hallow Him. Hallow is defined as “to respect greatly.” To fear God is to esteem, respect, honor, venerate, and adore Him above anyone or anything else.

Here is the bottom-line truth: where the Lord is reverenced, His presence manifests.

Pleasing God is my first priority in life. He is working in me both to will and to do His good pleasure.

Scripture makes it clear—the starting place of knowing God intimately is the fear of the Lord. Without it, we develop a phony relationship with a knockoff Jesus—one who is not the Lord of glory.

The love of God draws us to Him; the fear of God keeps us from the evil that seeks to destroy us.

Without seeing Him, we lack inner transformation—authentic holiness—and consequently we don’t see Him. It’s cyclical.

Paul states that a marriage between a man and woman is an example of the way Jesus Christ and the church are united (Ephesians 5:31–32).

We can only purify our hearts by embracing the fear of the Lord, which drives us to pursue authentic holiness!

The reason I passionately avoid committing adultery against Him is that I don’t want to lose the intimacy we share.

Due to the miracle of becoming a brand-new person in Christ, we have a trustworthy conscience.

I will seek to be a friend to God and choose to make nothing else a greater priority.