“The reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord is the beginning and principal and choice part of knowledge; it’s the starting point and its essence; but fools despise skillful and godly wisdom, instruction, and discipline” – Proverbs 1:7 amp.
Walking in the fear or respect of God is the beginning of wisdom. You will never be able to walk in reverence of Him unless you honor Him in your life. Without honoring God and giving Him His place in your heart you will continue to walk after your own desires instead of His and you’ll never experience the high life of God’s plan in your life.
Honoring Him
The most you change your decisions and your lifestyle to line up with God’s Word, the more honor you are giving God in your life.
“For those who honor me, I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed” -1 Samuel 2:30
Failure to honor Gosis when you face a choice between going God’s way or your way and you choose to do what you want to do instead of what He says. A lack of respect for God is what causes the foolish to eat of the fruit of your own way, and be filled with their own schemes (Proverbs 1:31).
To eat the fruit of your own way is to experience the consequences of choosing to be your own god, and that’s a pitiful situation to find yourself in,
When you exalt and obey your desires more than you exalt God’s desire for your life, you take yourself out of God’s hands and separate yourself from His provision. You become your only deliverance. And relying on ourselves for deliverance just isn’t enough.
In Genesis after Adam disobeyed God, he had to live by the sweat of his brow instead of according to the provision of God. His disobedience forced him to live under a curse that he could not cure. He ate the fruit of His own way.
When you choose God way, you eat the fruit of His way, and His way is always good.
The abundant life He gives is full of love, joy, peace, goodness, kindness and all the fruit of the Spirit. Give God first place over all your desires, over your own ambitions and over everything in your life.
This kind of reverence for God will pull you back from the snare of temptation to do wrong and cause you to do what’s right. As you walk in God’s ways, your obedience will bring continued good in your life.
His life is the good life
God does not expect us to be perfect. But He does expect us to have a respect of Him -to fear Him. We are all going to fail so it’s important to repent, receive forgiveness and start again.
The decision to fear the Lord (honor and respect) is necessary if you want a successful life in God. You must decide. “I’m going to do it God’s way, come hell or high water. I choose God’s will for my life. Whether it seems easy or not, I’m going to do what God’s Word says.”
A person who makes this type of decision cannot be defeated. Nothing can keep them from success. No devil in heck can keep them bound because commitment to God’s way always brings success.
On the other hand, every single choice that goes against God will only produces sin and death.
Romans 6:23,
“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.”
If you want to walk in God’s kind of life, you have to walk in His ways.
“For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace“ – Romans 8:5-6
If you choose to walk in the world’s way, you’re going to have a hard walk. And in the end you will come out defeated and worse off that you were before.
I’ve never met anyone who has chosen God and regretted It
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