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MY FIRST PILLAR OF WISDOM IS FEAR
I will call this the fear factor lesson. Fear is a vital response to physical and emotional danger—if we couldn't feel it, we couldn't protect ourselves from legitimate threats. But often we fear situations that are in no way life-or-death, and hang back for no good reason. Traumas or bad experiences can trigger a fear response within us that is hard to quell. Yet exposing ourselves to our personal demons is the best way to move past them. Fear has its good and it’s bad connotations. It can be helpful or it can be hurtful. In the Physical sense we often fear the known and the unknown. Spouses sometimes fear their mates because of known behavior. I believe that Winston Churchill used this quote during world war 2. "The only thing we have to fear is fear it ‘self.
I remember as a child my fear of thunderstorms. I remember many times during horrible storms becoming scared and falling on my knees by my bed and praying the only prayer I knew. Lord I lay me down to sleep, I pray my Lord my soul to keep, and if I die before I wake, I pray my Lord my soul to take. I always noticed that the prayer helped me to control the fear and I also learned that after awhile the storms would pass. This is the way life is Isn’t it? Storms come into everyone’s life at some time or the other. By sharing our fear with the Lord we soon learn that either we overcome the fear or we realize that he will go with us through our fears.
During my years in the USAF and my time on the Pensacola Police department I found my self in situations where I became fearful. It was during these times that I began to realize that fear can be good because it brought you to awareness. Being aware can alert you to a dangerous situation that can or will arise. By being aware and on alert we can prepare ourselves. Now I know what the Scripture meant when it says in Job 28:28 "And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding."
So as a first pillar of wisdom I had to place fear. Fear of the Lord can lead us to him, It can also help us in living our life for him. Because one can not see God with the natural eye they can be deceived into believing there is no God. But let me say this from experience I may not be able to see him in a person form but because I was raised to believe in a God I found my self trusting in one whom I never saw when danger arose. It was this element of fear that eventually allowed me to access the Kingdom of God.
You see when danger arose I would call on him and he always saw me through the situation. I remember one night as I was patrolling in my squad car on the west side of Pensacola I stopped at a red light at A street and Cervantes. As I pulled to a stop a car on the other side of the light suddenly ran the red light squealing his tires as he took off at high speed. The first thing that I imagined was he was a criminal, saw me, and was running. I took pursuit and called in that I was in a high speed chase. I was asked to relate where I was and tried to give the most accurate address but the one I was chasing kept turning at different streets to evade me. We covered a lot of areas and came back to Cervantes street and headed west. He suddenly turned north on E street and increased his speed to about 80 MPH. The street went downhill for about a mile and he picked up a lot of speed as well as I going downhill. All of a sudden at high speed he turned left and I following close behind turned left also as the high rate of speed we were travelling. As I tried to make the turn I lost control of my vehicle and knew I was about to crash and roll. I remember the last thing I did was let go of the steering wheel and call out Jesus Jesus help me. Guess what? He did! I opened my eyes, my car had taken the turn, and I was still in pursuit. The sports car an MG which was running from me tried to take another left and he crashed. I leaped out of the car with my weapon drawn and the driver got out with hands raised and surrendered to me. I looked at him and asked him, What have you done? What had he done? He had only ran a red light and that was all until he decided to run. God though had seen me through my fear. After that and a few more situations where God delivered me I found out that man can not live for God alone with just fear although the beginning of wisdom can bring him to the Lord because of fear but he then has to develop Love to remain. Why? Because after awhile man can overcome fear or put it out of his mind but Love can remain. But that’s another pillar isn’t it?
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