“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction” (Proverbs 1:7).
Fear of God? Our world doesn’t do this very well. We much prefer the love of God. I think most of us would agree that we are messed up as repeat sinners. We live that out pretty much every single day of our lives. So, we like to think about the love of God. A God who loves us.
That’s ok. God does love us who are repeat sinners.
AND we also need to know that the love of God is not to be taken advantage of.
The place where our world gets stuck when thinking about the “fearing God” thing is not because we don’t understand the word fear. The place where our world gets this all wrong is that we don’t understand “God.”
If we knew “God,” fearing, honoring, loving, respecting, obeying God would be a no brainer.
Do you know God?
Praxis: Faith in Action 