All over scripture is the statement that "the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom". I have spent the last week pondering what it means to fear God, asking God to show me what it is like to fear him. I still feel like I do not fully understand what this all entails but I want to point out a few things that I have come to understand. God is a King. Not just a King, but the King of all kings and rulers, human authorities, spiritual authorities. God's title alone should cause us as human beings to tremble. We are under his power, everything that He wills happens. Our lives seem to live sometimes under the illusion that we are our own masters and our destiny, at least in this life, is in our own hands. What a lie. We can make all the plans, we can store up all the riches, we can make choices about what we do with our time, but in the end these are subject to the will of God. James, in his letter, speaks by the Spirit of God saying: "What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, 'If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.' As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil" (James 4:14-16).
I want to simply continue by speaking to you, reader. And when I say you this not just to you the reader but this is what I am speaking to myself.
You are a mist.
You are a flower in the huge field of God.
Your beauty fades.
Your material existence like the wind, there one day, gone the next.
You have no right to boast in your self-determination.
You belong to the King of Kings.
He fashioned you with his hands.
He is your God.
He bought you when you were running from him.
He bought you with his own blood.
The blood of God himself spilled onto the dirt below a tree.
You are now his.
He is the overseer.
He is the Shepard of your restless soul.
Your soul will always be broken apart from him.
You are dependent on him for life itself.
Fear him.
Tremble.
He is God.
And you will know wisdom,
faith,
righteousness,
holiness,
godliness.
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