Breakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 20:23
"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