{"id":3712,"date":"2023-08-28T00:50:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T04:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=3712"},"modified":"2023-10-03T05:46:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T09:46:53","slug":"fear-of-the-lord-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=3712","title":{"rendered":"Fear of the Lord #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

See the opening post in this series here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yes, the fear of the Lord is a key, a fountain, and a passageway. Notice too that the fear of the Lord is the front cover, back cover, and spine of God\u2019s book of wisdom, Proverbs.<\/p>\n

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It is the front cover: \u201cThe fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction\u201d (Proverbs 1:7).<\/p>\n

It is the back cover: \u201cCharm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised\u201d (31:30).<\/p>\n

And as a book opens on the hinge of its spine, so the first and the second halves of Proverbs turn on Proverbs 9:10: \u201cThe fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first mention of fear in the Bible is found when Adam and Eve, due to their sin-shame, have hidden from God. When questioned about this new wrinkle in their relationship to God, Adam answered, \u201cI heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself\u201d (Genesis 3:10).<\/p>\n

But I suggest to you that fear existed before that moment. Adam was experiencing a newly distorted, twisted, ugly, life-draining fear. But prior to their grab for independence fear had been a beautiful, healthy, loving, life-giving reality. You were created for that fear. Sin has made fear destructive. God\u2019s original intent for fear was that it be the key to everything in our relationship to Him, an unceasing fountain issuing forth in life, the passageway through which we entered into the glories of relationship to Him.<\/p>\n

What we need is not an eradication of fear, but a resurrection of fear as it first was . . . and by God\u2019s mercies, ever will be throughout eternity.<\/p>\n

It is profoundly simple: The fear of the Lord is the key to everything about life<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See the opening post in this series here. Yes, the fear of the Lord is a key, a fountain, and a passageway. Notice too that the fear of the Lord is the front cover, back cover, and spine of God\u2019s book of wisdom, Proverbs. It is the front cover: \u201cThe fear of the LORD is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,52,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fear-of-the-lord","category-proverbs","category-wisdom","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-XS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3747,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions\/3747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}