Reading Proverbs – 1:7 The Fear of the Lord

August 1st, 2009 by Steve


Some of the members of our Wednesday night small group are reading our way through a chapter of the book of Proverbs each day during August – which is appropriate, since there are 31 chapters and 31 days. You can follow any Twittered comments with the hashtag #AugustProverbs.

I thought I’d try to jot an entry here about a verse in each day’s chapter…

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools scorn wisdom and instruction.” – Prov 1:7

You can know facts, but you don’t have any true sense of your place in life, the universe or eternity until you realize there is a Creator who built it all and put you in it. Until then, you simply don’t have the appropriate context in which to understand your place and how you fit in. An awful lot of people try to deny God’s existence, preferring to use their provincial and relative view on life rather than the universal and absolute view that God gives.

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