Fear God

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. (Ethiopia)
It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness. (China)
The pen is mightier than the sword. (England)
The tree with the most leaves will not necessarily produce juicy fruit. (Brazil)
Wealth is like hair in the nose: it hurts to be separated whether from a little or from a lot. (Madagascar)
There’s more than one donkey called Martin at the fair. (France)
If you don’t enter the tiger’s cave, you won’t catch it’s cub. (Japan)
A dimple on the chin, the devil within. (Ireland)
The wisdom of the world only goes so far.
PROVERBS 1:1-7 (CSB)
1 The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
2 For learning wisdom and discipline; for understanding insightful sayings;
3 for receiving prudent instruction in righteousness, justice, and integrity;
4 for teaching shrewdness to the inexperienced, knowledge and discretion to a young man—
5 let a wise person listen and increase learning, and let a discerning person obtain guidance—
6 for understanding a proverb or a parable, the words of the wise, and their riddles.
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.
We come to Proverbs to connect the head with the heart and the hands.
To despise God’s wisdom and discipline is foolishness, to fear him is understanding.
To fear the Lord is to be amazed by who he is and how he works, to the point that we tremble in awe and wonder before him.
Psalm 112 (CSB)
Hallelujah! Happy is the person who fears the Lord, taking great delight in his commands.
JAMES 1:5 (CSB)
Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God—who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly—and it will be given to him.