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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

We don’t teach our children to fear a kind grandfather or Santa Claus, do we? Why then would we teach them to fear God? First of all, the comparison of God with grandfathers or Santa Claus is degrading nearly to the point of slander. As [D.A. Carson] notes, “The sentimental view generates a deity with all the awesome holiness of a cuddly toy.” Second, fearing God is not the same as being afraid of God. The person who fears God in the biblical sense is maintaining a humble reverence for His glory, majesty, dominion, and authority. The person who fears God recognizes that He is not only the Giver of all good things, but also the Lord of the universe and the Judge of sinners. He is the One who creates, and He is the One who has the power to destroy. He is the One who rewards, and He is the One who disciplines. Fearing God, in other words, is the sobering recognition that He is not to be trifled with.
Daryl Wingerd

For if [a Christian] cannot thank and praise God as well in calamities and sufferings as in prosperity and happiness, he is as far from the piety of a Christian as he that only loves them that love him is from the charity of a Christian. For to thank God only for such things as you like is no more a proper act of piety than to believe only what you see is an act of faith. Resignation and thanksgiving to God are only acts of piety when they are acts of faith, trust and confidence in the divine goodness.
William Law

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    We Have Come Into His House And Gathered
    In His Name To Worship Him
    We Have Come Into His House And Gathered
    In His Name To Worship Him
    We Have Come Into His House And Gathered
    In His Name To Worship Christ Our Lord
    Worship Him, Jesus Christ Our Lord

    Let Us Lift Up Holy Hands And Magnify
    His Name And Worship Him…

    Let’s Forget About Ourselves And
    Concentrate On Him And Worship Him…

    He Is All My Righteousness, I Stand In Him
    Complete And Worship Him…

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