"The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever." Psalm 19:9a

We've already looked at four statements regarding scripture.  Within those statements David gives a title, a characteristic, and a benefit of scripture.  The four titles we've looked at for the Bible are law, testimony, precepts, commandment.  God's word is instruction.  God's word is His revelation of Himself.  God's word is doctrines and truths.  God's word is not to be taken as suggestions.  Now David says the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever.  How is the fear of the Lord a title regarding scripture?  What is this fear?  Fear is another word for reverence or awe. John MacArthur says what this simply means is that the Bible is a manual on worship.   The Bible is the source of all the information we need on worshiping God. 

I spent a little bit of time with my concordance looking at verses that talk about the fear of the Lord or fearing God. In Romans 3 we see our true spiritual condition before God does His work of salvation.  None are righteous, none understand, none seek for God, all have turned aside, all are useless, none do good.  Look at verse eighteen,  "There is no fear of God before their eyes."  

Man's true spiritual condition prior to salvation is a total absence of a proper submission and reverence for God.

Jeremiah 32:40 tells us that it is God who puts the fear of Himself in our hearts.  The ability to fear God, to properly submit and reverence Him comes only from His favor in our lives!  We would never choose to please Him or exalt Him on our own and think of the blessing and joy we would miss out on if it were not for His grace and mercy.   
   

Jesus told the Samaritan woman that His Father was seeking true worshipers - Jn. 4:23.  True worshipers according to Jesus worship God in spirit and in truth.  To worship in spirit is to worship with a proper heart attitude.  What is a proper heart attitude?  One in which we bow our own desires and will before God's.  Joyful obedience is most certainly an act of worship and He expects our obedience even when we don't feel like it.  The wonderful thing is that a doer of the word shall be blessed in what he does - James 1:25.  To worship in truth is to worship according to what God has revealed about Himself in His word.  Yes, scripture is a manual on worshiping our Creator, the one and only true God.   This manual on worship is clean, it is without blemish, and as such it will last forever.