eBook: The Unseen Discipleship to Christ

Perfect fear is to tremble lest in any way we grieve the Heavenly Visitor Who has taken His abode within us. It is the surrender of our whole life to Him, so that He may accomplish within us His great and wondrous work, even as He did in the Holy Virgin. Such was the fear of the Mother of God. It gave her the grace and strength to stand even higher than the angels and abide continually in the presence of Christ.utterances are poured forth in tears, which flow like rivers from his heart. Tears are the language of love, the tongue of the soul possessed by the Spirit of God; as is written on the Great Schema: ‘The flow of tears is more lyrical than words.’

The fear of God becomes a word of spiritual edification, divine consolation, and strength. A characteristic example is that of the Apostle Paul, who confessed to the Corinthians: ‘And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.’ It is the fear of God that made the Apostle Paul a great preacher.