This is the only proper attitude of the creature toward the Creator, the Author of our being, and the Creator, Preserver and Lord of the whole universe. When He speaks, therefore, our ears should be reverently attentive to His voice, and every power alert to do His bidding. Our safety, our happiness, and that nobility of character which prompts to love and gratitude, and which promptly and wisely heeds instruction and advances in knowledge and wisdom, all depend primarily upon our supreme reverence for the Lord. And therefore the Lord would foster and cultivate in us that becoming filial reverence that is due to His name.
Wisdom not only includes knowledge but also the practical application of knowledge to good purposes. The highest and the best things are those that concern man in his proper relationship toward God and his fellow-men. How evident it is, therefore, that the source of wisdom is reverence for God, since it enables one to come into a proper relationship to God and man and realize its calls.
Deut. 4:6; 5:29; 6:2; 10:12; Job 28:28; Psa. 111:1-9; 25:8-14; Prov. 1:7-9, 21-23; 2:1-11; Eccles. 8:12; Zeph. 3:7; Mal. 3:16; Matt. 11:25-30; Luke 1:49, 50; John 14:15-17; Acts 10:35.
