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This past week I was listening to some fellows 
talking about their love for God 
and that Fear in that relationship seems to
defeat or cancel out Love   
Therefore fear of God is wrong....?     

Hmm....    

Indeed, John writes that 'perfect Love casts out fear' 
and "God is Love" 
ref 1 Jn 4:16-19  

Yet when David didn't follow God's instructions
on how to move the ark
and a man died
and
'David was afraid of the Lord that day'

David.
A man 'after God's own heart'

David loved God.
Yet also learned that fear of God
is not out of place either.

A few months later he DANCED before God
with wild abandon....

Fear? Awe?
For sure

Did it keep David from God....?
No way.

Read about it in 2 Samuel 6

Lord,
You are Love
and You are AWEsome
I am in AWE of You
Struck with Your Majesty
and my finite punnyness....
insignificant....

and Yet...
You have Chosen me.

You, Holy God
Full of Glory and Might
Master of all
in the Heavenly realms
and all of Earth.

Blessed be Your Name.
for ever and ever
Amen.

PJ