The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction (Proverbs 1:7)
Many people are looking for knowledge and wisdom. But what is the beginning of knowledge? The Word gives us the answer, and tells us, that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
Now you might ask yourself: “what is the fear of the Lord?“.
Unfortunately, many people have a misconception of ‘the fear of the Lord’, and think, that it means, to be afraid of the Lord and they think that you have to do certain things to keep Him ‘satisfied’. Because they think, that if they do something wrong, that they will be struck by lightening.
But that’s not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God is a loving God!
Of course He chastens and corrects through His Word, but He does it out of His love for us.
What does the word ‘fear’ mean?
What does the word ‘fear’ actually mean? The word fear means to have morally reverence, and that you are in awe of God. That’s the meaning of the word ‘fear’. So, if you want to get knowledge, then it starts by having a morally reverence for God.
You shall love Him with all your heart, might and soul. You shall do His commandments, not because you have to, but because you want to. You shall do His commandments, not because you are afraid, that He will punish you, if you don’t do it, but because you want to please Him, so that He will be glorified!
‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might’
The Creator of the heavens and the earth
When you acknowledge the Lord God as the almighty God, the Creator of the heavens, and the earth, and all host, then you shall have a morally reverence for Him. When you love Him, and get to know Him, then you shall be in awe of Him. You shall love Him, with all your heart, soul, and might, and therefore you shall obey Him and keep His commandment, because you want to please Him and not hurt Him.
When you fear the Lord, then you shall not adjust and change His commandments, and His words, to your carnal desires, lusts, needs, requirements etc., but you shall adjust your life to His Word
You shall do, what pleases Him. Instead of you doing, what pleases yourself. You shall not dare to change or take anything out from His Word.
His Word is the truth, and shall always be the truth. It doesn’t matter if people change His commandments and words, because of their own needs, or desires. Their actions will not change the truth.
Jesus feared His Father
When Jesus walked on the earth, He feared His Father. Jesus walked completely in the will of His Father, by submitting Himself to His will. He didn’t do, what He wanted to do, no, He laid down His life, and did the will of His Father.
His Father had a plan for His life; a good plan. And Jesus fulfilled this plan for His life.
You should also fulfil God’s plan for your life. The only way to fulfil God’s plan for your life, is to submit yourself to Him and do His will. His will for your life, is first of all, that you obey Jesus His commandments. He wants you to stay obedient to His Word, and apply His Word in your daily life. So that, you will walk as a son of God.
Walk in His will instead of ours
When you become born again, and when His Holy Spirit dwells in you, then you shall walk in the fear of the Lord. You shall walk in morally reverence towards the Lord, and shall accomplish His will, on this earth.
But if you stay rebellious, and do not keep His commandments, and don’t walk according to His will, then you shall live like a fool.
When you don’t keep His commandments in your life, and live without His instructions, then it will be impossible to get knowledge, and to become wise.
When a person, who calls himself/herself a Christian, adjust the will of God; the commandments of God to his/her own needs (desires, lust of the flesh), or to worldly standards, then that person doesn’t differ much from a fool (a sinner). Because fools don’t want to submit themselves to God’s will.
The fool isn’t looking for godly wisdom, because for them it’s foolishness. They do not want to be instructed, and do not want to be told what to do, because they think they know it better (or they think they know it all). Therefore a fool walks in haughtiness; in pride.
Wisdom of God has nothing to do with an IQ.
Wisdom of God begins by a morally reverence to Him, by submitting yourself to Him, to His Word, to His will, and to walk in His commandments; walk after the Spirit.
