In concluding these foundational messages on the Fear of the Lord, do you feel like you have a grasp on it? Is it making sense?
More importantly, are you beginning to internalize it? Are you growing in the fear of the Lord? Are you finding a new awe in His awesomeness? Are you seeing Him for the wonderfully perfect God that He is? Are you recognizing His absolute Majesty?
If you haven’t been following along in our study, take the time to go through your Bible and find all the references to the fear of the Lord. Read them in context. Meditate on them. Pray over them. Memorize them. Ask God to make them clear and real to you. Then ask Him to help you pull it all together, to see the Big Picture of what the fear of the Lord truly is and how it is to be applied in your life – how it is the foundational depths of all of life and learning.
As you grow and follow the Lord in this, bring your children alongside you. Share what you are learning/have learned. Bring them into their own study of this. Have them look up and mediate on the Scriptures. Have them reflect and reason from the Scripture, and come to Biblical conclusions, as much as possible, on their own (or with a bit of guidance from you as needed).
This is discipleship. This is Lifestyle Education through Discipleship. And this study on the fear of the Lord is the beginning of the foundation of all of Life and Learning. It is the place to start.
Are you saying, “But this isn’t phonics and physics, arithmetic and zoology”? Remember, we are laying the most important foundation, according to the Word, to study those things and more. For “Wisdom is the principal thing” and “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”. I believe this verse should be memorized by every Christian parent:
And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. (Ecc. 12:12-14)
Why don’t you begin the teaching and training of your children today with Psalm 34:11:
Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Next week, we will move on to Wisdom – the Principal Thing, Lord willing. Although I’ve written much about it in the past, my goal is to pull it together for you here, next week.
