Good morning, friends, good afternoon, good evening, whatever time of day you are listening,

I'm thankful you are here with me for the morning mindset.

It is time for us to get our minds aligned with the truth of God.

Now think about that. Two things are aligned when they are moving in the same direction,

when they are lying parallel to each other. We want same direction God is in our

God is in our thoughts.

And that's what the morning mindset is here to help us do. Today I want us to look at the book of Proverbs.

Chapter number 16, one sentence that we're going to pay attention to today because I brought

up this subject in yesterday's episode of the

morning mindset and I thought we could use a little more clarity around this

issue of what the scripture refers to as the fear of the Lord.

Now when we hear those kinds of statements,

we as human beings, especially in the Western world don't tend toward really liking the way it's

phrased because we prefer to think of God as gentle and kind and full of mercy and grace and he is indeed all of those

things. And so when we hear the fear of the Lord there might be a little bit of dissonance

that happens in our souls or in our

minds. And we say, what does that actually mean? I thought he was loving. I thought he was

kind. You see the conflict that we might feel. In fact you might be feeling it right now.

The Fear of the Lord is a phrase that is used throughout the scriptures, not just in the

Old Testament, to describe the kind of place

and mindset and position that we as human beings are to have in light of who God is contrasted to who we are.

Now let me say that again, maybe in a more succinct way.

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