Week 52 Day 4

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The Fear of the Lord

Ye are not your own; for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

1 Corinthians 6:19–20

Oh! grant us, Lord, to feel and own

The power of love divine;

The blood which doth for sin atone,

The grace which makes us thine.

Where does wisdom begin? Does it come at the feet of great teachers? Is it something you learn from your parents? For President Lincoln, wisdom started with God. As a young child, he learned to fear the Lord, to read God’s Word, and to follow his laws. “It is fit and becoming of all people, at all times, to acknowledge and revere God,” he wrote, “. . . to bow in humble submission to his chastisements; to confess and deplore their sins and transgressions in the full conviction that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” When Lincoln needed an answer to a problem, when he need encouragement and a lift, he went to the source of all wisdom. He was convinced that to be wise, he would not only acknowledge and revere God, but fear him too.