Having Reverential Fear of God
1 Peter 1:17, ‘If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth’.
As we are living in this world, glorifying God, there is one area, where we need to be careful is in, ‘having fear of God’. If we are addressing our living God as Father, then we need to conduct ourselves in reverential fear of God, during our stay on earth. He is a righteous judge. He is a loving Father. One day, we must all appear in front of the judgement seat.
When we appear before the judgment seat of Christ, we find there are two categories of people.
- Standing in confidence
- Shrink away from Him in shame.
- God judges our deeds or actions, whether they are good or bad:
- God judges our inner motives behind all things we do:
- God judges our Words: