Psalm 111:10: The fear [reverance] of Yehovah is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do His commandments: His praise endures forever.
Proverbs 9:10: The fear [reverance] of Yehovah is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
A more meaningful and accurate translation of Psalm 111:10 would be: To deeply respect Yehovah is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do His commandments: His praise endures forever.
Proverbs 9:10: To have a deep respect for Yehovah is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Reverence, Ecclesiastes 12:13: Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Reverence, have deep abiding respect toward God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
God doesn't call upon us to come to Him as terrified of His awesome power, no indeed, He calls upon us to come to Him as we ought to come before our physical father with a deep respect for who they are.
Yehovah is our God and our Father and as such, we should have a deep and abiding respect for His greatness and awesome power which He exercises toward us in infinite grace and steadfast love. He does not want us to have an abject fear of him, but to love him and respect Him as hopefully, we do toward our own physical father.
Notice what Jesus says in Luke 12:7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Can we imagine that God has such an interest in those who are His, that He knows and can number all the hairs on our heads? Amazing closeness. We need to realize the awesome presence of our God and Father is with us continually in all we say, think and do, because of His indwelling spirit in us. We are indeed temples of the living God individually because of His Spirit that indwells us! Knowing this ought to command deep and abiding respect for Him in our walk on the path He has given us to walk upon, a narrow path but one that leads to age upon age-lasting life. When we walk according to the Spirit that He has given to us to guide us we show forth our deep and abiding respect for our Father and our God. May He continue according to His awesome and wonderful Grace to give us all we need to properly show our deep and abiding respect toward Him.
Indeed, in the final analysis, it is all of Him and nothing of ourselves. He never asks anything from us that He is not willing to provide us with the means to do what He has asked of us. Halil Yah - Praise Yahovah!
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