Lesson 13: Who is the man who fears the Lord? Him will He instruct in the way he should choose.
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O Lord, You who rule, Your path is the path of peace. Blessed is he who walks in it. For we find mercy, love, righteousness, humility, obedience and patience in her ways. She clothes the naked, feeds the hungry, gives drink to the thirsty, entertains the needy, reproves, threatens, comforts and admonishes. She is sober, honest, chaste and upright in all her ways. None takes offense at her.

Her goings forth are to eternal life, but few there are that find her. Yea, I fear dear Lord, that there are scarcely ten of a thousand that find her, scarcely five who cherish her. It continues as it was from the beginning, when there were but four upon earth. Of these the Scriptures testify that two were disobedient, and a third one slew his brother. There were eight righteous when the world was drowned, and one of them mocked his father. In Sodom and Gomorrah, with the adjacent country, there were four righteous persons, one looked back and was changed into a pillar of salt. About six hundred thousand valiant men left Egypt, of whom but two entered the promised land.

Not all were damned who died on the way, but they did not, because of their unbelief, inherit the promised Canaan. So also, dear Lord, is the eternal land promised us, if we walk the way which You have chosen for us. But now they walk the crooked way of death.

Even as those did not inherit the temporal, so will also these not inherit the eternal Canaan. O Lord, well may I sigh and say, “Where is he who fears the Lord? Where is he who has understanding? Where is he who seeks God?" They are all gone out of the way; they together have become unprofitable.


“There is none who does good, no, not one. Their throat is an open grave. With their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips. Their feet are swift to shed blood, destruction and misery are in their ways, and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes." (Romans 3:12-18). All that is among them is infidelity and lies.

“They despise and blaspheme Your righteousness, yet they sing and speak much of Your truth, and glory in Your great name, although there is not one ripe grape on their vine, nor any good fruit to be found with them.” (Galatians 5:19-23). “But those who fear You, O Lord, depart from all iniquity. For Your fear is the beginning of wisdom.” (Psalm 111:10). “Your eyes are upon those who fear You, Your Holy Spirit leads them, Your gracious hand preserves them.” (Psalm 34:15).

They will not fear nor tremble for You are their protector and shelter against intense heat. You pardoned their sins. You enlighten them, make glad their souls, give them grace, blessing and peace. He that fears You walks uprightly in all his ways for You teach him in the way that You have chosen.