Good fear

I used to have a very hard time deciding whether to obey my parents or to just do what I wanted. Now usually what I wanted seemed at the time much more appealing. What I didn’t see were the troubles or pain it would cause, but my parents knew. So I had a choice to make. Often I would chose my own way and find out exactly why my folks didn’t want me to do that! What I lacked was a healthy fear of my parents. You might think it’s a bad thing to fear but there is such a thing as good fear. Mr Webster gives four different meanings for the word. One of them is a profound reverence and awe especially towards God. This is the fear I lacked. It got me into a lot of trouble!! There are many Bible verses about fearing God. Many of them say that fearing God brings wisdom. If I would have had a reverence for my parents, who loved me and wanted what’s best for me, then I would have saved myself a lot of heartache! Wisdom! But I didn’t. Foolish. It’s the same with our attitude towards God. If we study our bibles we learn what God wants us too do, and not to do. If we have a profound reverence and awe of God then when we are faced with a choice to do what he desires or not do what he desires us not to we will make the right choice! Wisdom! He loves us so much more than anyone else and he doesn’t ask us to do things that will harm us and warns us against doing things that will. Psalm 115:13 says he will bless those who fear the Lord. The small as well as the great! If we fear God then we have nothing else to fear!! Praise be to you God our a Savior for it is you alone that we fear! Give us wisdom not as the world sees wisdom but the wisdom that comes from you!!
Do you want to be blessed today? Fear God!!