The Fear Of God

Tony Blair was the keynote speaker at the National Prayer breakfast in February. I just read an article in The American Spectator magazine by Jonathan Aitken. Aitken reports that the former British prime minister has become a powerful advocate opposing the growth of aggressive secularism. Blair said, "I say that there are limits to humanism and beyond those limits God and only God can work," he urged his listeners to return to the fear of God because the phrase "really means obedience to God, humility before God, acceptance through God that there is something bigger, better, and more important than you. It is that humbling of man's vanity, that stirring of conscience through God's prompting, that recognition of our limitations that faith alone can bestow."

Blair is right on the money when he says that man has limits and beyond those limits only God can work. Have you recognized your limitations? He calls us to return to the fear of God, Proverbs tells us that, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge." He also said that the fear of God means obedience and humility. Only by humility can you know that there is something bigger, better and more important than you. Most people live with themselves at the center of life. There are some people who have no fear of God at all they are arrogant and proud. Proverbs also tells us that,"The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor." In a room filled with politicians, sports figures and diplomats who are all seeking their own honor without humility and without the fear of God, a clear call was given that life is not about them and they need to repent or they will be brought low by a mighty God.