Proverbs 1-3

My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding, and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.

I've been struggling lately with the idea of fearing God. I mean, the reason that I so often choose to do things my way over God's way is because at the moment of choosing, I do not fear God.

This passage makes it very clear what it takes to understand the fear of the Lord our God. It is a commitment on our part to seek God. Reading and studying his word and storing them up within us, desiring God's wisdom and understanding even to a point of calling out and crying aloud for them, and to do this as fervently as though it is the most valuable thing we can ever pertain. Then the bible says, we will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

That makes sense. I can't be praying constantly for God to show me how to fear him. Understanding the fear of the Lord comes from me seeking him. The more I seek him, the more God will reveal himself to me. And when I see more of God, that is when I will naturally learn to fear him. If I'm not filled with the Holy Spirit and God is not real to me, how can I ever fear God?

Let's, again, humble ourselves before God this day. May we seek him with all of our hearts so we may understand the fear of the Lord, because the "fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge".