I have learned through many painful experiences to fully embrace the fear of the Lord in my life because I know He only wants my very best, and everything He does is motivated by love, justice, righteousness, and truth.
I’ve had a lot of hard knocks – not because I did not hear God on something, but because I trusted myself entirely too much. That was a difficult and painful reckoning.
But I had to learn that wits and intelligence are not substitutes for God, and to never second-guess Him.