Fear
According to the NASB, the
first mention of “fear” appears in Genesis 9. It reads as follows…
Genesis 9:1 AND God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, Be
fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
2
The fear of you and the terror of you will be on
every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that
creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are
given.
That’s a pretty good thing
for us isn’t it?
I mean the whole idea that
lions and tigers and bears (oh my)
are actually afraid and
terrified of us.
Sure, a lot of animals
call kill and eat us rather easily if we venture into their territories
unprotected. But most often, unless they are being attacked, protecting
themselves or their younguns, or really, really hungry, they prefer to leave us
alone.
They even run and hide
from us!
Why?
Because they fear us.
Fear is reverence…
It’s the same word we use
when we say “fear God.”
Why did God put the fear
of man in animals?
I think for one basic
reason.
God said that we can eat
them.
Good reason to avoid someone like that if you are an animal.
If I could make a rather
odd point here, non domesticated animals would rather run and hide from humans
in the same way that Adam and Eve ran and hid from God…
Maybe they just didn’t
know what God was going to do with them when He found them.
Not sure what this means.....sounds like something that would be a post on facebook to see what other people wold say...
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