Fear Of The Lord

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding” (Proverbs 9:10).

The “beginning of wisdom”, maybe better phrased as, the “beginning of comprehension”. In terms of God it is 1.The acceptance of the fact that there is a supreme being and 2. Acceptance of the fact that we will never understand the “breadth, and length, and depth, and height” (Ephesians 3:18) of that supremacy.

“God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend…. Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out” (Job 37:5, 23).

Pride, which is one of, if not THE most detrimental sin of man, has a difficult time accepting something bigger than him, better than him and that is incomprehensible to him.

“Knowledge of the holy”, what is holy but that is righteous? Holy, righteousness, that which is pure and true, that which is of God. Holiness and righteousness are the attributes and characteristics of our Lord that we are to emulate and strive for and will become only through Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.

So what is this Proverb telling us? That man starts to catch on to the program when he accepts the fact that there is a God, that God is supreme and that God is righteous.

Fear, wisdom and understanding. Realization and awe, comprehension and awareness.

Bill Hitchcock