"The fear of the Lord leads to life, so that one may sleep satisfied, untouched by evil" fear of the Lord The Hebrew word for fear is yare, which actually means fear or being afraid. It came to mean having a reverence for God that grew out of the realization that there was a personal Supreme Being that was either pleased or not pleased with everything you did. We are not the gods of our own universe. There is a God who watches what we do and has declared that we should stay w

When people blow God off and do what they want, or serve false gods because they have the morality structure that the person prefers, or emb

A crucial concept in enjoying the victorious Christian life is "fearing the Lord." This carries with it the idea of awe and revere

Our society has lost its understanding of how big God is or His existence at all. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wise living.

Proverbs 22:4 "The reward of humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, honor, and life" the reward We must never forget that there is a reward for living the way that God wants us to live. It pays to be righteous. We can often feel that the rewards and the payoff all go to the wicked, but nothing is further from the truth. They get the momentary pleasure of sin and the deep consequences of sin. We receive the continual feast of righteousness. I believe that we too often d

Proverbs 14:2 "He who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises Him" There is something motivating righteousness. People don't stay within the guidelines of God's morality without a reason. That reason is a mixture of positive and negative reasons called the fear of the Lord. It is a shame that we no longer teach the fear of the Lord in our churches or our culture. And as a result, no one has the proper incentive to stay within the bo