True Knowledge

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
TRUE KNOWLEDGE
Prov 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge,
but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
NIV
It certainly would be a wise and prudent thing to fear the Lord, but in the sense of being in fear of what he is capable of doing and in the sense of having a great deal of reverence toward him. I know some people say that he is a God of love and I should have nothing to fear from him because he loves me and I have accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior. But the fact is, God who created the heaven and the earth and everything in them, and who is going to destroy them some day and make new ones, is just a little bigger and more powerful than I am and no matter what anyone says than should cause a little fear. Understanding that at moment of my life he could simply decide not to think about me, and I would just disappear. To consider that even though I have the certainly of eternal life because of Jesus, it is still up to God. He is the one who offered it and provided for it and he if so desired he could take it back, not that he would, but he could. Why would I not fear a God who has all the power? I think sometimes people get to familiar with God, in a sense calling him daddy instead of Father. I think some people see him as this gentle loving dad who wants nothing more than to give them everything they want and he is there simply to meet their every need. But the fact is, he is God, the almighty, all powerful, all knowing creator of the universe and of me. I have an incredible reverence toward him, and hold him high and lifted up as the supreme authority over all. To stand in his presence should bring some fear in every soul as whatever is lurking within the heart, he is keenly aware of. If it were not for his own choice of providing Jesus, his own son, to stand between himself and me, I would be dead on the spot. There are no foolish thoughts in my mind regarding my relationship with God and his strength and my weakness, his righteousness and my unrighteousness, his authority and my submission. I know I should fear him, in both senses, and when I came to that decision I knew I was beginning to have some true knowledge.