"Rejoice and Tremble" A True Contrast of the One Who Worships the LORD God Omnipotent Who Reigns-Tremble at His Holiness-Rejoice in His Salvation!

A Devotional for Friday November 6, 2027

From the pen of John Bunyan author of The Pilgrim's Progress

Rejoice and Tremble!

“Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling”

Psalm 2: 11.

I would have you . . . indeed . . . [know], when God shall tell you that your sins are pardoned indeed, “rejoice with trembling” (Psalm 2: 11). For then you have solid and godly joy; a joyful heart, and wet eyes, in this will stand very well together and it will be so more or less. For if God shall come to you indeed and visit you with the forgiveness of sins, that visit removes the guilt, but increases the sense of thy filth and the sense of this that God hath forgiven a filthy sinner. [These] . . . will make you both rejoice and tremble. O, the blessed confusion that will then cover your face while you, even you, so vile a wretch, shalt stand before God to receive at his hand your pardon and so the first fruits of thy eternal salvation—“That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth anymore because of thy shame (thy filth), when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God” (Ezekiel 16: 63). But,

As the presence, so the name of God, is dreadful and fearful: Wherefore his name doth rightly go under the same title, “That thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD” (Deuteronomy 28: 58). The name of God, what is that but that by which he is distinguished and known from all others? Names are to distinguish by; so, man is distinguished from beasts, and angels from men; so heaven from earth, and darkness from light. Especially when by the name, the nature of the thing is signified and expressed; and so, it was in their original for then names expressed the nature of the thing so named.

This is taken from the volume I was asked to edit Daily Readings [from] John Bunyan. It can be seen here https://www.amazon.com/stores/Roger-Duke/author/B0034NNVG0?ref=ap_rdr&shoppingPortalEnabled=true

Daily Readings {with] John Bunyan