I am always asking God for wisdom and search often for verses on the topic. One theme that seems to come up time and time again is fear and fool. Fear of the Lord brings wisdom. Lack of fear makes me a fool. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. - Proverbs 1:7 (KJV) What exactly does this mean? Am I supposed to tremble in the corner somewhere waiting for God to strike me with a lighting bolt? Certainly not. The fear that I find time and time again is a reverence, respect, piety. Fear comes from the Hebrew word (yir'ah ) And means.. reverence: A feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration. The outward manifestation of this feeling: to pay reverence. Longtime readers know that I always like to look at the flip side (antonyms) of words as well. So, when we are not feeling an attitude of deep respect and manifesting this feeling with obedient living, we are... Showing... disdain, disregard, disrespect, … [Read more...]