The Fear of the Lord

My son, if you receive my words

    and treasure up my commandments with you,

making your ear attentive to wisdom

    and inclining your heart to understanding;

yes, if you call out for insight

    and raise your voice for understanding,

if you seek it like silver

    and search for it as for hidden treasures,

then you will understand the fear of the Lord

    and find the knowledge of God. Proverbs 2:1-5

What happens when ‘the fear of the Lord’ diminishes in a culture or a person’s life? What happens when people dismiss all knowledge of the divine Creator? What is the result in your own life of not realizing the consequences of not knowing His heart? 

Because we have SO little experience with knowing God, because of our extreme comfort and selfish ways we’ve learned to abandon God’s standards and ways. We no longer believe there will be any consequences for our words and actions. This is the supreme deception by the fallen enemies of God on humanity. To make us believe there won’t be be an eternal ramifications for not understanding and abandoning the ‘fear of the Lord’ in our lives. To make us believe we can ‘be like gods’ and not have to deal with His eternal judgment upon us. This deception and delusion is what leads us into … sin.

If we had spiritual eye sight and actually saw what our words and actions do within the dimensions beyond human earthly vision we would be MUCH more careful how we speak and act as our existence has great impact far beyond we actually now know. We would see what really is going on and what ‘forces’ are in play and are working non-stop to deceive and destroy us … personally. The Lord has gifted some humans with spiritual sight at times, as it is recorded well within the scriptures. (2 Kings 6 is one example) For the most part spiritual sight is given to the ‘prophetic’ role within the scriptures. And since the institutional Church has been so good at eradicating that prophet role from almost all of it’s gatherings — the gift of spiritual sight is rarely seen now by the Body of Christ. Those who have accepted the ‘call’ of the prophet have had to realize that they won’t be accepted in the majority of Churches, and the current spiritual leadership won’t want them around. I know many who have been asked to leave the fellowship because of their incessant questions, which expose the error and sin in the ‘camp’. Anyone now allowed to rise to any type of spiritual leadership within the system of the institution must be willing to compromise the Voice of the Holy Spirit within them. Another way of putting it …is they must diminish the “fear of the Lord” in them.

The level of the fear of the Lord in a place can almost be correlated with the magnitude of the true prophetic voices being heard. The fear of the Lord is quickly diminished when the prophetic ‘word’ is squelched by the leadership and people. When repentance is no longer needed in relationship or the community …the ‘fear of the Lord’ disappears.

If you had a measuring scale of the ‘fear of the Lord’ in your life what would it say? When is that number high and when is it low? Why? Do you have friends that help with that rising scale in your life? Or do you have friends that diminish that scale in your life? What about your ‘habits’ and lifestyle and how they effect that ‘scale’? 

Reread the opening scripture and ponder. Allow the Holy Spirit to speak to you on this issue in your own life.