The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. The fear of walking off a cliff
is God given instinct. The fear of anything else is bad because it
shows a lack of trust in God.
A Glimpse Of God
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
It can help me obey His commands.
I love the Lord who is mighty and awesome.
I hug Him yet tremble as before Him I stand.
He is my God, my Father, my Friend.
There is none mightier, fiercer, or above Him Amen.
He is my Lord, my Master, my King.
I am in awe of Him as I sing.
He is my Champion, my hero, my all.
Before His power and authority I fall.
He can raise or destroy all.
He is God, and I hear Him gently call.
To me His trembling little lamb.
I come and I eat from His hand.
How can God to big for me to comprehend.
Want to help me stand.
Why would God who is beyond what I can comprehend.
Want to call me His friend.
Trains
Back before I knew the Lord I use to hop trains. Before I ever hopped a
train I met a fellow who had his leg cut off at the knee by one. So when
I went to hop trains I only got on while they were sitting in the train
yard waiting to go. One time I was on a flat car that had some semi trailers
on it. There were two other people with me . One of them started getting
angry with me and would have thrown me off while the train was moving,
but the other person was a friend of mine and started to defend me. While
he was defending me I had to move to another place and with everything
moving that was scary. Finally when the train reached the next yard I got
off I was switching trains anyway. I met up with my friend and we
got the front of a grain car all to our selves. So what does this
have to do with my spiritual walk. Well I learned a healthy respect for
trains even before I hopped one. Even though I feared (respected) what
a train could do to me I still loved trains and spent time on them. When
I read in the bible about fearing the Lord, it was hard for me to swallow
at first because, I had learned that God loved me enough to die for me.
My love for Him also, made it hard for me to fear Him. Then I remembered
a train can take my physical life if I am foolish around them. God can
destroy me totally if I don't obey Him. That's a fearful thing to
think of. Gives me a healthy respect for God. God could put me in hell,
and from what I read in the bible of hell I definitely don't want
to go there. This fear helps me to be even more determined to obey God.
The other side of that coin is I love God so much and respect Him so much
that I am very determined to obey God. with that much determination something
good should come about. Fear is good when it keeps you from doing things
like walking off a cliff. Fear is wrong when it keeps you from trusting
God, or when it gets in His way, or when it keeps you from obeying Him.
The bible is full of examples of the right and wrong kinds of fear. Here
are a few, there are more.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding
have all those who do His commandments. Psalm 111:10 The Lord is light
and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Psalm 27:1 And do not fear those who
kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able
to destroy both soul and body. Matthew 10:28 God has not given us a spirit
of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7
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