A Good Understanding
After speaking of the fear of the Lord, Psalm 111 says, "A good understanding have all they that do his commandments." It is the Commandments that make sinners and saints tremble. The Law puts the fear of God in our hearts. Sinners tremble when they have an understanding that the wrath of the Law calls for their blood. Saints tremble at the foot of a bloodied cross, because it was the Law that called for their blood, but instead shed the precious blood of the Savior. The Bible tells us that it is the fear of the Lord that makes men depart from sin both before and after the Cross. It doesn't disappear when we come to know His love. It continues to do its most necessary work: "The fear of the Lord tends to life: and he that has it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil."( Proverbs 19:23) There goes another minute. Gone forever. Go share your faith while you still have time.
