There are many issues and concerns in our world today. Some are even saying that 2012 is the last year! So I offer this little verse from Proverbs 1:7 - Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Only fools despise wisdom and discipline.
It is a healthy reverence that leads to an understanding that the power of God is residing in each of us and that the Spirit is greater thatn the power of our fears or of our enemy Satan. A deep sense of awe about who God is leads to the true knowledge and wisdom we desperately need for our lives today and in the year ahead.
I pray - Lord, develop in me a deep reverence of you that leads to life, wisdom, and greater intimacy with you. Open my heart to be teachable and to receive correction and discipline willingly. Grant that I would fear you, Father, and not my circumstances in the present or the what-ifs of the future. May I be so filled with your love that faith would replace my fear. In Jesus name, Amen.
My other addition today comes from my brother's blog and I would recommend that you look it up. He offers advice to his son prior to deploying overseas.
http://worldchristians.wordpress.com/#!/cover
I would recommend you give it a read and honestly, he offers great advice for all of us!
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions” - Rev. Richard Mickelson - friend and brother in Christ and Rainer Maria Rilke (German poet)
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