David Nasser – Glory Revealed Ch 3

I’ve been reading David Nasser’s new book Glory Revealed.  It’s actually a devotional really.  I sat down the night before last and went through the few pages of Chapter 3 and then even looked up the extra verses and even answered the questions.  It was kind of shocking really how much I felt like God revealed to me when I actually sat and listened to what he was trying to show me.  It dealt with the fear of God and the verse that stuck out to me was Proverbs 9:10.  I didn’t really understand the connection between fear and wisdom and especially the beginning part of it until then.  Here are some notes I wrote down:

The fear of God puts Him on a pedestal one step higher.  He knows best and you have to listen to Him even when it hurts to obey.  You must know that He is perfect to have fear of Him.  Fear is not being scared.  It is being in awe of or to have respect for. 

Wisdom is putting knowledge into practice, or knowing what to do in a situation.  The more we “fear” the Lord, we begin to obey Him because we know He is right.  The knowledge of knowing to do right becomes wisdom when we do what is right.  Wisdom is obedience.  Obedience is wisdom.  Wisdom originates in fear, hence, Proverbs 9:10 says The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

I don’t know if I have it all nailed down yet but I know I do have a new perspective of the fear of the Lord.  It makes me want to go back and read all the scriptures about fear of the Lord again just to see if they have new meaning for me.  It is like the other week when the speaker at our women’s conference gave me a new definition of grace–I wish I could repeat it verbatim–I wanted to go back and read all the scriptures with grace in it. 

I’m planning to sit down and read the next chapter here after I find a new template 🙂  Hopefully this one will be just as good–the chapter, not the template ;).