{"id":1275,"date":"2011-02-12T22:05:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T04:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/12\/the-fear-of-the-lord\/"},"modified":"2011-02-12T22:05:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T04:05:55","slug":"the-fear-of-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/12\/the-fear-of-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fear of the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding&#8221; (Proverbs 9:10). <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What the alphabet is to reading, notes to reading music, and numerals to mathematics, the fear of the Lord is to attaining the revealed knowledge of [Proverbs].&#8221;-Bruce Waltke<\/p>\n<p>C. Bridges defines fear of the Lord as &#8220;that affectionate reverence, by which the child of God bends himself humbly and carefully to his Father&#8217;s law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The key to reading Proverbs is understanding that wisdom begins with a relationship with the living God. The one who reads this book and assumes that they can apply its principles in a mechanistic way in order to achieve some pleasurable life independent of God is gravely mistaken. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding&#8221; (Proverbs 9:10). &#8220;What the alphabet is to reading, notes to reading music, and numerals to mathematics, the fear of the Lord is to attaining the revealed knowledge of [Proverbs].&#8221;-Bruce Waltke C. Bridges defines fear of the Lord\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/12\/the-fear-of-the-lord\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}