Reverent Fear

1 Peter 1:17-21

I have a number of friends whose parents immigrated to America and made tremendous sacrifices to ensure a better life for their children. What is common among these friends is a "reverent fear" for their parents. It is a reverence however that waxes and wanes and sometimes they forget about the hardships their parents endured for their sake. Often the hardships are difficult to understand. What's it really like to leave behind the security of familiar culture and plunge into a new world where even the simplest things like learning how to ask where the bathroom is become a daily struggle?

How much more then do we struggle to comprehend the magnitude of the sacrifice God made on our behalf? Really, I do not know how we are supposed to wrap our minds around "the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect." And so often, we downplay the unexplainable. But it is the centerpiece of our faith--and I have no doubt that the more we get it the more we will live in reverent fear.

P.S. "He was chosen before the creation of the world." What do I even do with that? In one sentence he makes Newton and Einstein seem like little children.