"Direction in Life - Part 1"
Daniel Valles

READ Proverbs 1:7

Everybody in their life make choices that affects or colors subsequent choices and direction in life.  Some make major mistakes throughout life because of decisions that they had made earlier in life.  The decision to drink alcohol has ruined many a life, filling decades with sorrow and regret.  The same is true in the spiritual realm.  The moral compass that people choose for their life, in a large sense, determines later choices.  The Bible states that the very beginning of knowledge is fearing God.  Everything in one's life boils down and starts with this one criteria.  Do you fear God?  Fearing God is not the same thing as believing in God.  Fearing God is a conscience awareness of God and His Word which affect our actions and life.  It is remarkable that the verse says that fear of the LORD is just the beginning.  Fear of God instills in us a desire to know God greater.  Properly fearing God and desiring Him first in our life will draw us to read His Word, meditate on it, and pray with our Heavenly Father.  As we get the heartbeat of Christ aflame in our lives, Christ has a greater hand to guide us and help us make the right decisions in life - hence, knowledge.

The passage calls all those who despise wisdom and knowledge the word fools.  If we do not actively pursue fearing God as we should, or put it off till some other time, we are shortchanging ourselves!  Psalm 147:5, talking about God, proclaims, "his understanding is infinite."  If we do not communicate with God, whose knowledge and understanding is infinite, especially when we have it at our proverbial fingertips, of course we are fools!