The Good Kinda Fear

Reading a blog from Pyromaniacs: Setting the World on Fire from May there was a post of a Spurgeon daily dose and the following quote was a head nod slash smirk of "dat's right..."

This was not the style of preaching that John's hearers liked; but John did not think of that. He did not come to say what men wished him to say, but to discharge the burden of the Lord, and to speak out plainly what was best for men's eternal and immortal interests. He spoke, therefore, first, concerning the wrath of God; and, next, he spoke concerning the way of escape from that wrath.

Pretty much realizing the seriousness that the Lord holds in His heart of the salvation of men.
To do so, we must remember the wrath to come. Not to induce fear for a hurried, forced repentance that lasts a week but to cultivate a holy fear of God.
Also, a great reminder that we're not here to tell nice Candy Land, fairy tale stories and promises that'll please people and sugar coat their entrance to the Kingdom but to deliver the solid, simple truth of God and His sobering Word of truth.

Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
It starts there.