Now we come to the final word for this series, last post we talked about fear, and another word came up a lot during that time, reverence, so what is reverence exactly?

Referring back to the same dictionary we have been using, the word reverence is defined as such

1: a feeling of profound awe and respect and often of love; veneration.

2: an act of showing respect especially in obeisance.

To revere, is vastly different from fear

Fear, is a often negative emotion, but reverence is a respect and move for someone so powerful that it causes an impact on behavior.

To revere the Holy God of all creation is not to be afraid of a powerful malicious malignant being, but to recognize and respect the severe discrepancy and enormity of a simple truth

The God who created all that is, who is Holy, where we are sinful, who is all powerful, where we are weak, deserves to be respected and worshipped as such.

The Bible tells us, without God we can do no good thing, reverence for God is born not out of a place of fear, but if genuine understanding of who God is, and His Holy nature and how that correlates to us as His create beings.

Reverence comes from acknowledging just how much greater our God is than we are, and seeing that truth. It is not fear, it is awe, respect, and should drive us into obedience, obeisance, love, and veneration.

To see God for who He is, should lead us to worship, and to worship properly, in spirit and in truth, a place of perfect love where there is no fear, for perfect love (God is love) casts out fear.