Thank you so much for joining me today for the morning mindset.

The morning mindset is an attempt for us to start out our day in alignment with the way God thinks. It really is that simple.

We are working every morning and it's hard work to get our minds on track for the day.

We've been doing that most recently, but looking at this concept of the fear of the Lord.

The Bible speaks about it quite boldly, quite openly, and we sometimes shirk back from the concept because we don't like the idea of being afraid of God.

We want God to be someone we can cozy up to, someone we can see as our friend.

And I don't speak derogatoryly about those concepts

because they are indeed true.

But they come once we understand this concept of the fear of the Lord.

Because you see the fear of the Lord is the beginning of the wisdom.

It's the beginning of knowledge.

It's the beginning of relationship with him because it enables us to see him rightly in all of his

grandeur and glory as king, as sovereign over everything that's happening,

over the universe, and over our lives,

and it enables us to see ourselves

in a place of humility and submission to him, which then opens the doors to all of his love, all of his goodness,

all of his greatness, because we see ourselves as sinners in need of the Savior, who he has sent to be our salvation and to be our

redemption and all these glorious biblical concepts. And so my friends I want

to encourage you to embrace this concept of fearing the Lord.

Now let's start again by defining what we're talking about.

The way I've defined the fear of the Lord based on my understanding of scripture is that to fear the Lord is to believe God to be

who he says he is and to conform my thinking and my life with that reality. So believing God to be who he says

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