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AUGUST 24
THE FEAR OF THE LORD

Scripture:   Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”

    We so desperately need to understand His ways for our lives, but the only way to gain that knowledge is to “fear” Him.  The word “fear” used here is defined in the 1828 Noah Webster’s Dictionary as “a holy awe or reverence of God and his laws, which springs from a just view and real love of the divine character, leading the subjects of it to hate and shun every thing that can offend such a holy being, and inclining them to aim at perfect obedience.”  It is a respect and reverence for who He is and what He does!  
    To fear the Lord as taught here in this passage is to realize who God is and reverence Him for that.  It is to realize what He is doing in the world and stand in holy awe of that.  To have such a respect for God requires us to have been instructed to these characteristics and attributes of God. Do you realize just what an awesome God we serve today?
    We need to “fear” Him because of His great power.  The Bible teaches us that He is omnipotent which simply means that He is all powerful.  There is nothing impossible with God. He shows His power in creation, in conversion and in His coming again!  
    We also need to “fear” Him because of the fact that He is omniscient, which means that He knows all things and that He knows them all at once.  There is nothing that our Lord does not know about. Such and awesome God!  Do you know Him?
    Then we need to “fear” Him because He is omnipresent, which means that He is everywhere present at the same time.  He is right here with you now as you are reading this devotion.  He will never leave us nor forsake us!  Friend, do you have that Godly fear that you should for the Lord?