Fearing God, again.

February 18, 2009

Today's Reading: Leviticus 8-9 and Proverbs 14

I believe that I have discussed fearing God before, and, due to a lack of any other topic, I feel a need to bring it up again.

I’m serious, I couldn’t think of a gosh darn thing to write about! This is hopefully the first time that this has shown on this blog, or at least I hope this is first time it shows.

So, what am I going to talk about, one of those long, drawn-out parts of Leviticus that I can’t really apply because I’m not in the habit of sacrificing animals? Or should I do something about Proverbs, which is a constant rant about: “the wise do this, and are awesome, but the foolish do that, and really suck”.

I guess I’m going to have fall back on an old standby, I notice three verses in the Proverbs reading, so I went with the common theme of the fear of the Lord.

The first says that the fear of the Lord has a secure fortress, and it will be for a children a refuge. The second is that the fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, and turns a man from the snares of death. I forgot to mention that earlier is a sentence that says the upright fears the Lord, but he whose ways are devious despise him.

So, what can we learn from this? That if you fear the Lord, you will have security, life, and upright-itude. Sure, I guess I could apply that, but that is pretty obvious, isn’t it?

Maybe we can learn this. They can’t all be gems. I had some pretty cool stuff on the first few entries, and sometimes, I really get a real shiner, but today, I got nothing.

However, my entries have to be 400 words minimum so I can post it on this blog. So let me leave you with this:

If you want to fear God, no problem. Just picture God and picture you. You are a frickin’ ant in His sight. No, how about a paramecium? No, let’s put it this way: if the paramecium had paramecium, then that would be you.

I’m not trying to belittle you, but have you seen the universe? It’s pretty darn big. The world is like a grain of sand on a giant beach. So you can imagine what that makes you. And you think that you are so important!