“Fear God.”
I Peter 2:17
My heart is hardened from thy fear,
’Till thou the stone remove,
’Till love constrain me to revere
The God of pard’ning love:
Father, declare thyself to me
Through Jesus reconciled,
Then shall I always render thee
The reverence of a child.
Charles Wesley’s Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762)
[“Burning Bush” – Artist unknown]