16 The Fruit of Fearful Faith: Well-Being I think it is crucial to see that we began this study of the fruit of fearful faith with the first fruit of worth, and we are concluding with the last fruit in the cluster: well-being. We saw at the beginning that most people live with an abiding sense of a lack of self-worth. Likewise, most of humanity lives with a lack of a sense of well-being. They seem to live under a foreboding dark cloud that overshadows their sense of happiness. As a result, they live their lives dominated by the wrong kind of fear. Tragically, this negative fear and sense of a lack of well-being is often passed from one generation to the next. But, as we saw in some of the verses in the study of the fruit of wealth, God wants us to pass along to our children a positive fear, one that will result in a wholesome feeling of contentment. Look with me at just a few verses that relate a reverential fear of God with a growing sense of family well-being. • “Blessed are those who fear the Lord, who find great delight in his commands. Their children will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed” (Psalm 112:1–2). • “Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obe-
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