Yesterday we talked about the difference between knowledge and wisdom, but why should we trust the wisdom of God?
Read Psalm 111:10 and journal your thoughts
Notice how the Psalmist begins by talking about “Fear of the Lord” as being the beginning of wisdom. This is a phrase that is used over and over in the Psalms but what exactly does that mean? Now there are two types of fear used within the Scriptures one has to do with a hopeless it’s the end of the line sort of mentality, like the Hebrews having their back against the Red Sea while the Egyptians come bearing down on them (Exodus 14). The other type of fear is very different it has to do with reverence or respect, this one is more like a subject kneeling before a king. The subject respects the king and his decisions.
In today’s passage, “fear” has more to do with the second than the first. There are some in our culture who read into this the type of fear of the Lord, like a tyrannical king who would yell “off with his/her head” at the smallest injustice. But does that really sound like the God of the Scriptures? The difference is like how a wife views her husband after he beats her (Exodus 14 “fear”) and the wife who respects her husband because she knows that she can trust him with her heart and he would never do anything to hurt her (reverence “fear”).
This brings us to the questions why do you follow this God? Do you follow Him because if you don’t the He might just zap you, or because of a level of respect for who He is, because of His love for us, for what He has done, and what He could do? We can trust the wisdom of this God because He is like the husband who we can trust with our hearts.
Today pray that God would help you through whatever struggles you have trusting Him
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