A Satisfying Life

Whatever the fear of the Lord is, it provides many wonderful things for us in addition to a satisfying life. My personal definition is faith in God. What believers need to fear are God*s chastening and the sin that causes it.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:23: See what men get by living in the fear of God, and always making conscience of their duty to him.

Safety: They shall not be visited with evil; they may be visited with sickness or other afflictions, but there shall be no evil in them, nothing to hurt them, because nothing to separate them from the love of God, or hurt to the soul.

Satisfaction: They shall abide satisfied; they shall have those comforts which are satisfying, and shall have a constant contentment and complacency in them. It is a satisfaction which will abide, whereas all the satisfactions of sense are transient and soon gone. He shall not go supperless to bed; he shall have that which will make him easy and be an entertainment to him in his silent and solitary hours.

True and complete happiness. Serious godliness has a direct tendency to life; to all good, to eternal life; it is the sure and ready way to it; there is something in the nature of it fitting men for heaven and so leading them to it.

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