Question:
Is the fear of God more like appreciation and faith? Is it bad to have no fear of God? Or are you supposed to fear?

Answer:
To have a “fear of God” is to revere [to regard with awe] Him. God is an awesome God and is deserving of everyone’s deepest respect. Thus, it is fitting to “fear God.”

Proverbs tells us that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” (1:7). The world, at large, does not fear God, as is evidenced by Paul’s words describing everyone outside of Christ in Romans 3:18, “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” But the believer should always hold God in the highest esteem, which will serve as a controlling motive in his life (spiritually and morally). Joseph feared God (Genesis 42:18) and it kept him from sinning against Him (Genesis 39:7-9). May we each be characterized by the “fear of God.” “Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear” (Hebrews 12:28).