NOTES for Pro 14:27
We are used to connect fear only with the negative sensations. Fear does our life unbearable, fear binds by hands and feet, paralyzes all our initiative, because of fear people commit suicide, led by fear people kill others. Fear is one of the most terrible consequences of the fall, the half of death. And suddenly it is said here that fear is a fountain of life, departing from the snares of death. Maybe, it is about another fear here?
Yes, there is a precision here: God's fear. In what this fear distinguishes itself, why it helps to live? All our fears are dismiss that will happen (or against us will be done) something bad with us. From that rises paralysis or something worst again, indeed, "fear has big eyes". The main biblical Revelation is that, God is good, He is love. That is why we can await only good from Him. The fear of the Lord doesn’t consist of the fact that something bad will happen to us, if we do something or don’t do it, but rather, if we do something not as it should be, then nothing good will come true to us. And it is already completely a different thing! It frees, and doesn’t enslave, it leads to the plenitude of life. Besides, since God is almighty, we shouldn’t be afraid of all the rest. And once again - in it there is life and freedom.
Aren’t we afraid of God quite as we are afraid of the thunderstorm or fire? Do we really believe in God's goodness?