Does your relationship with God include fear?
Is fear compatable with faith?
Is love based on fear really love or simply duty?
Are you afraid of the end of the world?
It depends. At times when revelation comes I feel anchored and at peace, and I just want to stay in that atmosphere. I guess mostly, when I read His Word or pray, or speak to Holy Ghost filled people, I have an approach of reverence.
But when I have done wrong, I have feared Him. I have begged for mercy and feared His judgement. When I get corrected, I feal dread at times.
Scripture say that it is a fearfull thing when you land in the Hands of the Living God. I can testify to that. But in those times you know you have to keep on approaching Him if you expect to receive mercy. Take your punishment.
My grandfather remarked that when he was still in the air force, the night he received the Holy Ghost and was born again, as God's Great Presence filled the dark room where my grandfather was kneeling, that it was so overwhelming and fearfull that my grandfather wished the earth will open up and swallow him for fear of God. He was a changed man after that. Needless to say. But the love of God was evident in my grand's life to anyone who met him.
And for those who knows of William Branham, it was said that when that Angel of the Lord came down, that he went white from fear. He was at times paralyzed. Sometimes not responding to anything or anyone around him. Even stopped breathing that I know of once. The people that came near Him when that happened were petrified. My Pastor remarked "there is no question in your mind that God is real after that experience"
In Hebrews 12 it said Moses exceedingly feared and quaked and Israel did not want God to speak to them but rather Moses.
In Revelation 1 John fell like one as dead. Daniel also had a very similar experience in Daniel 10:8.
I think if more people have the experience of the fear of the Lord, Christianity in general would have been more effective globally. You will know this is real.
Yes, I fear the Lord, but I also Love Him. I want to experience Him and surrender to Him. Just Worship Him. If I need to go through these fearful moments to get there, so be it. I want Him to be real for me and those around me. Better you deal with it now while the Blood still atones.