The fear of the Lord is
instruction in wisdom.
Proverbs 15:33
Do you know anyone who knows it all?
How about you? Do you know it all?
You’re probably not so arrogant as to suggest that you know it all. Nevertheless, you believe precisely what you believe. (Of course you do! Otherwise you wouldn’t believe it.)
But why do you believe what you believe? What percentage is Biblical? What percentage is cultural? What percentage agrees with your own morals, preferences, or worldview? What percentage is shaped by experience? What percent is shaped by feelings? Have you ever stopped to think why you believe what you believe?
Hopefully all of our beliefs are continually sharpened by God’s Word (and his faithful teachers). But that requires that we be intentional.
It also requires that we stop trusting the world and start trusting God’s wisdom. He not only invented truth, but he IS truth!. Indeed, faith grows only when we submit to his continual “instruction.”
In Christ’s Love,
a guy who, as a kid, feared instruction
a guy who, as an adult, wants to
fear the Lord through instruction
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