Difference Between Being God-Fearing And Being Scared Of God
Are you God-fearing? There is a BIG difference between being God-fearing and being scared of God. Being God-fearing means being in awe of God. Here’s why leaning into our holy fear is liberating.
“God-fearing” is a phrase many of us have heard to describe someone. But are we supposed to be afraid of God?
There is a difference between someone who is scared of God and someone who is God-fearing. Someone who is scared of God might deny God or try to hide something from God.
Someone who fears God is in awe of God and understands God has the power to both create and destroy. A God-fearing person believes God’s divine love for us keeps God’s destruction at bay. They have an intimate relationship with God.
The only people truly scared of God, and with good reason, are oppressors. Their denial of God is reflected in the systems they design to maintain control over the oppressed.
Those who are God-fearing, the oppressed, understand these systems hold no real power over them because God’s power is the only real power.
We see this in the bible when the King of Egypt, the oppressor of the Israelites, ordered midwives to murder all male Hebrew newborns.
But the midwives, being God-fearing, refused. And God protected them.
Being God-fearing is liberating. When we lean into our holy fear, we realize anti-Black systems don’t have power over us. God is with us in our fight for liberation.
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