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hey can someone please explain this verse to me: Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting
but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Proverbs 31:30 i mean i dont get the last part why are we supposed to fear the Lord? thanks (link)
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Several people hit on what the idea of fearing the Lord means. Like they said, it doesn't mean to be afraid of the Lord, but rather, to respect how awesome (in the old sense of the word--something that makes you stand in awe) and powerful God is.
I think a lot of people today have the sense of God as an always-nice fairy-godmother type of figure. You ask God for something, and God will give it to you. Let the Red Sox beat the Yankees. Let me pass my math test tomorrow. Make this guy like me. Whatever. We've lost the sense of awe for God, respect for God. God's become sort of a good-luck charm, a wishing well.
I guess this was a problem in ancient times, too. We were supposed to maintain a sense of reverence, of awe, of respect for the Lord. (That's part of what not taking the Lord's name in vain means, too. Don't use it lightly.) We can't presume to be able to control God with our own wants and needs--instead, we need to bend ourselves to the Lord's will.
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