FEAR OF THE LORD: Let’s talk about Proverbs 9:10 KJV
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Good morning or afternoon my beautiful people! Wherever you are in this world, I hope you enjoyed the last two blogs I wrote for enlightenment. I also hope you’re having a good week because it’s been tough the past several days in regarding to Texas, rising COVID deaths and more. We often wonder why God let these things happen to us, and why we have to suffer the way we do. This brings me to the bible verse: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the holy is understanding-Proverbs 9:10 KJV. This is another short and simple verse that we will be talking about today. I’ll do my best to list the details as to what the verse essentially means and why we should take account for it. I will also try to keep this short and readable, so here we go.
Why does ‘Fearing the Lord’ make US wise?
Even when we’re stressed, we think we know the answer to every situation so we do our best to fix it. Even if we know the existence of Lord, and His ability to wipe all of our ordeals in a blink of an eye; we think we got it handled. And that the Lord is watching us to be impressed by our so called deity status. The obvious truth is we’re not deities. At all. We are humans, and we are always in desperate need of the Lord’s sovereign power. In the Lord’s eyes, we are sagacious once we fear Him. Sagacious means having great discernment and judgement, therefore we’re wise enough to know the Lord is the only deity. He is the only supreme deity that is able to wipe out the crisis in Texas and the COVID. He is he the ONLY one who can wipe out every major problems and ordeals we ever faced on this earth as well. He just want us to know Him. And to know Him is to fear Him and be sagacious. Mind you, it’s actually the good type of fear. The type of fear we need in order to be wisely aware of His sovereignty. Wisely aware of His ability to bless or condemn the earth anytime and that we all should rely on Him for anything. ‘Now why would God condemn the earth Tachief?’ Well because for one, He is the Supreme Judge and most the righteous of them all. His condemnation of our planet earth is always justly and He can crush it to ashes today or tomorrow. I don’t mean to scare you with the doomsday narrative. However, I’m just trying to illustrate how much we should fear Him because to do that would be wise. After all He’s here to help us, we just need to go to Him, and turn all of our burdens to Him. In comparison to us, His burden is very light according to Matthew 11:28-30 KJV . Fearing the Lord keeps us disciplined and set ourselves away from sin. Knowing that He can send us to heaven or hell on judgement day is the righteous fear; that’s what makes us wise. Or sagacious.
UNDERSTANDING THE HOLY Spirit
God has the wealth of the Holy Spirit for every single person breathing on this earth. It is free to have, and anyone can get it right now. It’s just the matter of accepting Jesus Christ as our savior. Once we do accept Jesus, the Holy Spirit is automatically ingrained into our hearts and souls. To understand the Holy Spirit is like hearing the angels whispering to you, ‘No that is wrong, you shouldn’t have impure thoughts of this woman with large breasts in her v-neck dress. That is sin itself!’ Or on a positive side, ‘ Give your last dollar to this poor homeless man sleeping in the cardboard box at the subway. He went through so much trouble for the past five years’ The Holy Spirit is not what you THINK you hear, it’s what God actually says to you. The Holy Spirt is a way of listening to your heart and taking actions in the manner of Christ. Knowing right from wrong, and knowing justice from sacrifice; helping us to be keenly knowledgable of morality and godliness. It’s the way God intended us to be, through and through. However, we are so stuck into this world of temptation and power that we forget God’s will to get our acts straight. He doesn’t want to send us to hell but He cannot let any demonic spirits get into heaven. That would corrupt His Kingdom of purity and virtue. He loves us so much He’d forgive our sins countless times, more so grant us the Holy Spirit so that we can be fully knowledgeable of what’s pure and what’s sin. It’s the Spiritual Shield of Righteousness.
Sin is Sin says the Holy Spirit
We’d do very small things thinking it isn’t sin, but it actually is. For example, a rebellious teenager can say, ‘I hate you so much mom!! You know it’s hard for me to maintain A’s and B’s!! I think school is a waste of time, so quit being stupid and let me go out with my friends tonight!!’ Her uttering the words, I hate you, and her making up excuses to not do well in school is sin. Not as sinful as murder or adultery, but nonetheless sin. She may apologize to her mom the next day, but as long she doesn’t have Jesus Christ in her heart, and ask God for forgiveness, she cannot be granted the Holy Spirit. To dwell in heaven with the Lord forever, you must have the Holy Spirit to begin with. Jesus would never utter the words I hate you, or make up excuses not to do well in school. This is because He walks with the Holy Spirit and it meant to be pure and free of demonic thoughts. Sin is sin, whether you murder, have impure thoughts, or even utter the words ‘I hate you’. There is NO sin in heaven, big or small. That’s why the Holy Spirit is free for us to have in this demonic world, so that we can easily refute from it. This is according to God’s Words: For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ-Romans 6:23. Understanding the Holy Spirit is quite tranquil and unchallenging, it’s just that we have to turn away from the ways of this world and be willing to listen to Him through Jesus Christ.
Feel free to leave your thoughts, comments, or questions below,
Peace and Love
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