I love this verse about Jesus…
“And hls delight shall be in the fear of the LORD.” -Isa 11:3
It’s really awesome how there’s something delightful in the fear of the Lord. I know there’s a lot of Christians who don’t like the idea of “the fear of the Lord”. They see it as a negative idea that former generations may have believed in because they truly didn’t understand the love of God the way we do today. Nothing could be further from the truth! This prophetic verse from Isaiah about Jesus tells us that His delight would be in the fear of the Lord!
For Jesus the fear of the LORD was actually an enjoyable thing!!
I think that’s awesome and I’ve been meditating on that.
In the notes for the NET translation I find this…
“The Hebrew text reads literally, “and his smelling is in the fear of the Lord.” In Amos 5:21 the Hiphil of רוּחַ (ruakh, “smell”) carries the nuance of “smell with delight, get pleasure from.”
I love how the fear of the Lord gave Jesus pleasure and it should be likewise for us. What a wonderful perspective on the “fear of the Lord”!