WISDOM THROUGH FEAR

WISDOM THROUGH FEAR

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

  Psalm 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

  Proverbs 1:7, 20-29; 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. … Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:  I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. … The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. … The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. [Also note Job 28:28]

  “I’d like to be wise in God’s ways but I don’t know how to go about it. I read the Bible but just don’t get much out of it.” is asked.

  As was taught to me, I ask “Do you fear God?” Does the Biblical directive to fear All-wise Jehovah God Almighty puzzle you, or has it, or will it, open godly knowledge and wisdom up for you?

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