Wisdom from Fear
Wisdom
“for wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire can compare with her.”
Proverbs 8:11 NIV
Don’t forget: “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.”
Proverbs 16:18 NIV
Wisdom is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight.Wisdom is associated with attributes such as unbiased judgment,compassion, experiential self-knowledge, self-transcendence and non-attachment, and virtues such as ethics and benevolence.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom
Fear is an emotion induced by perceived danger or threat, which causes physiological changes and ultimately behavioral changes, such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat. Fear in human beings may occur in response to a certain stimulus occurring in the present, or in anticipation or expectation of a future threat perceived as a risk to oneself. The fear response arises from the perception of danger leading to confrontation with or escape from/avoiding the threat (also known as the fight-or-flight response), which in extreme cases of fear (horror and terror) can be a freeze response or paralysis.
In humans and other animals, fear is modulated by the process of cognition and learning. Thus, fear is judged as rational or appropriate and irrational or inappropriate. An irrational fear is called a phobia.
Fear is closely related to the emotion anxiety, which occurs as the result of threats that are perceived to be uncontrollable or unavoidable. The fear response serves survival by engendering appropriate behavioral responses, so it has been preserved throughout evolution.
Perfection & Order
Perfection
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Knowledge
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:7 (NIV)
Order
When a country is rebellious, it has many rulers, but a ruler with discernment and knowledge maintains order.
Order - Authority
“Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves”
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