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This lack of reverence manifests itself in the worship services of these churches, in the prayers they offer, the songs they sing, the language they use in referring to God, and in the lives of the members of their congregations. This lack of reverence exists because there is no faith in God and no
The word reverence is so familiar to all of us, yet it implies so much that we very seldom contemplate its full meaning. Psalm 33 so beautifully describes for us and exhorts us to Godly fear.
Words similar in meaning are deference, der, respect, reverence, and obeisance. Deference means 1. A yielding in opinion, judgment or wishes, 2. Courteous regard or respect. Defer means to be respectful, e.g., she defers to her father’s wishes or decisions. Respect means to feel or to show honor or
In this sense of the word, reverence comes very close to fear. We know that fear is not terror. In Scripture the two are by no means the same. Even in this respect, though, I sometimes could almost wish that people who claim to be religious and who claim to worship God could have just a bit more ter
Second, the Hebrew word translated “reverend” is used of people (rightly) fearing a man: “all the people greatly feared [revered] the Lord and Samuel” (I Sam. 12:18; cf. Prov. 24:21). Another reader asks, “Does the title ‘Rev.’ mean a revered person or a reverent person?” Although a minister must be
It is a means of obeying the third commandment which calls us, in the words of the Heidelberg Catechism, to “use the holy Name of God no otherwise than with fear and reverence, to the end that He may be rightly confessed and worshiped by us, and be glorified in all our words and works.” The use of “
In Psalm 89:7 we learn that “God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints and to be had in reverence of all them that are about Him.” Psalm 5:7 reads, “and in thy fear will I worship” We must not worship God (publicly or privately) with a casual attitude or a flippant spirit, but instea
And that means, that we prostrate ourselves before Him in true humility and adoration, that we speak well about Him and to Him, that we proclaim His praises always and for all things, that we stand in eternal amazement of Him, and that with a profound sense of our own unworthiness we address Him, ad
Awe and respect are minimized, and He is looked at and spoken to the way we would and do look at and speak to men when there is a way, which He has prepared, to stand in awe before Him and reverently speak to Him. And truly all of us must fight our flesh which does not have the respect for Him that
That we honor him means we show in our attitude (what we think), behavior (what we do), and words (what we say) that we respect him. We view him as above. We view ourselves as under. Demonstrating this requirement from Scripture is not difficult.