Do You Tremble Before God? If Not, Why Not? All Will Have To Stand Before Him and Give Account of Their Lives! We Had Better Tremble, In This Life OR the Next Life! A Point to Ponder . . .
- Dr. Roger D Duke
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A Devotional for November 5, 2025
From John Bunyan
Why Some Tremble Before God?
“I will restore he fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and rebuild them as they were at first. I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion me”
Jeremiah 33: 7-8.
And what mean the tremblings, the tears, those breakings and shakings of heart that attend the people of God, when in an eminent manner they receive the pronunciation of the forgiveness of sins at his mouth. But that the dread of the majesty of God is in their sight mixed therewith? God must appear like himself, speak to the soul like himself. Nor can the sinner, when under these glorious discoveries of his Lord and Savior keep out the beams of his majesty from the eyes of his understanding. “I will cleanse them,” says he, “from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me, and I will pardon all their iniquities whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.”
And what then? “And they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness, and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it” (Jeremiah 33: 8-9). Alas! there is a company of poor, light, frothy professors in the world, that carry it under that which they call the presence of God—more like to antics than sober sensible Christians. Yea, more like to a fool of a play than those that have the presence of God. They would not carry it so in the presence of a king nor yet of the lord of their land, were they but receivers of mercy at his hand. They carry it even in their most eminent seasons, as if the sense and sight of God and his blessed grace to their souls in Christ, had a tendency in them to make men wanton: But indeed, it is the most humbling and heart-breaking sight in the world; it is fearful.