Anthony Kidd, Pastor of Preaching at Community of Faith Bible Church, taught on how we can live wisely by living in the fear of God.

We can see in the Old and the New Testament how God’s people fear Him by worshipping Him and showing showing honor and reverence for Him, as well as following His commandments (Prov 9:10, Psa 25:14, Prov 14:27, Ecc 12:13-14, Deut 10:12, 2 Cor 7:1).

The fear of God is the bedrock of a wise life, and the more we know about Him and appreciate and understand His perfections, the more we will fear Him and thus be wise.  

We can cultivate this fear of the Lord by comprehending the following truths about the Lord’s omnipresence:  

• God is transcendent, meaning He is above and beyond his creation. He wants to have a relationship with us, despite the distance between us as creation and Him as Creator of all is an unbridgeable gulf (Isa 66:1-2).    
• God is imminent, meaning He is near us and He is actively and intimately involved with His creation. That means everything we do is under His gaze (Jer 23:23-24).
• God is everywhere. He is always in our “face” and aware of every thought in our mind (Psalm 139:7-12).

This understanding of God’s omnipresence, and the fear of the Lord that results, will drive us to wise living:

• We will worship Him
• We will have the comfort of knowing that God has not abandoned us, that He is with us in the valley and in trials.
• We will take sin seriously, because we’ll know we cannot hide from His gaze.
• We will have the assurance that no enemy can separate us from His presence.
• We will stop living compartmentalized lives, having godly integrity by living in a consistent manner at home, at the office, and all other arenas of our lives.