There was a time in our culture when the term “God-fearing man or woman” was used to describe a Christian; however the literature of the last century painted an image of this person as hard, cranky, without compassion, stoic, even brutal – not a pretty picture.
God-fearers at work have disappeared - at least many public voices. The “fear” written of here is not the trembling Lion quaking before the Wizard of Oz; rather, this fear includes the attitude of honoring God as having authority over all things rejecting the attitude of “I don’t need God: I can do just as well on my own.”
This faith is not mere facile declaration. This faith is vigorous, attentive, and “alive.” God-fearers are called to be magnets - attractive people - because they don’t worship self, they value others, and they lead with a moral compass firmly established.
Are you an attractive God-fearer in the workplace?
Proverbs 1:7(NASB) The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Copyright ©2009 by P. Griffith Lindell
Monday, June 1, 2009
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I would define fear from the hebrew 'yare' to reverve; to be so entraped in Gods love to know no other thing. But I agree that the Yare version of god 'fearing' is gone replaced by the fear of coming across as a child of God.
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