Is there any difference between fear of the Lord and the comfort of the Lord? It is His mighty glory that accomplishes both and not one without the other. Isaiah 40: "Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable..." This is the same God who brings us comfort:"He gives power to the faint and strengthens the powerless. Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted; but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not be faint."
This is the God who came to us in Jesus Christ, the One who stormed through Galilee, stilling violent rains, healing the disfigured and raising to life those whose bodies had gone stone cold dead. And when He did such things, He filled people with fear and awe--and an unwavering confidence in His power to deliver us from evil. by Mark Galli
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