Thursday, January 29, 2015

Exodus 20, 18-20

The Fear of God: When the people witnessed the thunder and the lightning, the trumpet blast and the mountain smoking, they all feared and trembled. So they took up a position much farther away and said to Moses, "You speak to us, and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we shall die." Moses answered the people, "Do not be afraid,  for God has come to you only to test you and put his fear upon you, lest you should sin.

The Father and the Mother do seek to instruct us, and instilling a little fear in us to be afraid of their power and might does help us come to respect them and sin less.

If we are smart we will love them and be loyal to them out of fondness and love, rather than from fear and guilt, but all motives help keep us on the straight and narrow.

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