Rejoice and Tremble: The Surprising Good News of the Fear of the Lord by Michael Reeves. Crossway. 193 pages. 2021
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Seminary president and professor Michael Reeves asks if fear a good thing or bad. He tells us that the most frequent command in Scripture is “Do not be afraid!” Yet again and again and again in Scripture we are called to fear. And perhaps even more strangely, we are called to fear God. The author wants us to rejoice in the strange paradox that the gospel both frees us from fear and gives us fear. It frees us from our crippling fears, giving us instead a most delightful, happy, and wonderful fear. He aims to show us that for Christians, the phrase “the fear of God” in the Bible doesn’t mean being afraid of God.
The author tells us that there are different sorts of fear. Sinful fear drives you away from God. On the other hand, right fear does not stand in tension with love for God. There is no true knowledge of God where there is no right fear of him. Throughout the book, the author compares and contrasts sinful fear and right fear.

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