The Bible says that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and it means it literally. I’ve heard a lot of people who try to replace the word fear with love to make the verse more suitable to their ears. Paul the apostle tells us in Philippians 2:12 that we are to work out our own salvation with trembling and fear because God himself is the one who works in us both to will and act according to His good purpose. But many so called believers today have lost what it means to have reverence for God. We have been so intoxicated with looking cool to our peers and being accepted that we’ve turned the Holy into the profane. I have seen people wear gears that say things such as God is dope, God is a G, Jesus is my homeboy, and all this is done just so that we can fit in by using terminologies the world uses to describe things that are supposedly cool. People will say to me, what’s wrong with that Tayib, they are just expressing themselves in their own slang? I say everything is wrong with it. It looks harmless on the surface but when you begin to attach to the name of God simple qualifiers that you use on your own friends, you begin to view God in the same manner, and you lose the gravity of the Holiness of God. You progressively lose the fear of the Lord. You’ve created an idol like the Aladdin genie that you can control because he is your homeboy. I want you to pause for a second and imagine that you’re in front of the apostles Paul, John, Peter, James and I want you to tell them that Jesus is your homeboy. You wouldn’t even dare.
What is the main thing God says about Himself , it’s this – God is Holy Holy Holy. Angels who are more pure creatures than we are won’t even dare to be so irreverent with attaching simple qualifiers to His name. Let me show you the example of three people and what they thought about God, see video below
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My name is Tayib Salami and I started Tayibs.com for the sole purpose of exploring difficult questions about the Christian faith that most of us shy away from. In 2017, I entered a very dark time in my life and it’s only by the grace of the Living God that I’m still alive today. It led me to really go deeper in my faith and consider a myriad of questions that I never thought about asking myself or others before. Welcome and enjoy the ride with me.