Now, the fear I’m talking about here isn’t your average, run-of-the-mill fear. The fear that I’m seeking to understand is the fear of the Lord. As a 22 year-old guy, I have no clue what that looks like in my life. I think this may be one of the things that I’ve battled with for quite a long time. I understand that it is important and that I need it, but I don’t know what it looks like.
It’s like telling a kid to share without showing them first hand. They have heard that sharing is good and they need to do it, but they can’t do it if they aren’t shown it.
Thats how I feel. Frustrated and just a little bit lost. Now don’t hear me say that I don’t agree with the Bible about how important it is to fear the Lord, or that it doesn’t show me how to do so. Actually, tonight I found just the opposite.
I was reading in Proverbs 2 and verses 1-5 paint a great outline for the basis of understanding the fear of the Lord. Solomon gives us five quick points that if we follow and pursue, then we will understand the fear of the Lord.
1. If you accept my words
- Just listen and take in wisdom that is spoken to you.2. Store up my commands within you
- Internalize all the boundaries and guidelines that the Bible has given us.3. Apply your heart to understanding
- When seeking to interpret scripture or anything of God, put your heart into it. Make it something you truly desire.4. Call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding
- Seek insight and wisdom from mentors, disciplers, or leaders in your church about your life’s situations. Don’t hold these things in your heart, because the Bible tells us that the wise seek wise counsel.5. Look for it (wisdom/understanding) as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure
- Hold wisdom and understanding as important, and more so, as anything worldly thing we could want.
Then, once we pursue and desire all of these things, it says that you will understand the fear of the Lord. I may not know what it looks like specifically in my life to fear the Lord, but I know where to start.
Do you know what it looks like to fear the Lord in your life? I’d love to hear what you think that looks like.
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