1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; 2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; 3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; 4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. 5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: 6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. 7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. 10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. 19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. 20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: 21She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, 22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. 28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: 30They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. 32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.33But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
This is the very first Proverbs from Solomon. He could have gone in so many other directions but he wanted us to know that the Fear of the Lord is where everything begins and ends with. It doesn't matter what happens in life, the one thing you must take hold of is the fear of the Lord.
The fear of the Lord doesn't mean you actually have to be afraid of God. However what it does mean is that you have to reverence Him and everything about Him. To reverance God means, you give everything you have, you honor Him by walking in awe of who he is. This doesn't give you the right to go into a church service and start talking right in the middle of worship service or moving in and out or be a distraction to everyone who is around you. Show some respect. What bothers you, bothers God. So no gum cracking, no talking about your day to your neighbor unless your telling it to God first, don't be a distraction, go to the bathroom before it starts, get your bearhug before the first song, and what ever you do, seek Him first instead of the gossip chain that starts the moment you step foot into a place.
It's about listening and doing what is being asked of you. When you obey, you show that you fear God and all He's done in your life and will do. You show that your in awe of His awesomeness and His ways. When you obey, you say to the Creator of the Earth, You know more than me, Lord. I will follow You step by step, hour by hour, minute by minute.
Keep your attitude in check. Never think your way is better than God's way. He's seen it all, and has done more than what we can possibly imagine.
You want wisdom? Fear the Lord and obey and smile while your doing it!
God Bless.
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