Submitting to the truth of God's word

"what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord ’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?" -Deuteronomy 10:12, 13
 What does it mean to "fear The Lord"? To many it may seem contradictory to be required to fear the God who sums up love itself. The actual Hebrew word, "Yir'ah", which is translated to mean "fear", means to fear, to respect, or to be in awe. When we think of things in life we're fearful of, we can conclude that they are things that our mind is submissive to. Someone might say they're fearful of their future, fearful of an individual, or fearful of an animal. The statement "I'm afraid of", can be exchanged for "my mind submits to". To be afraid, even in a modern context, is essentially to allow our thoughts to be controlled by whatever it is we are afraid of. So when we are told to "fear God", we are being to told to give up control. We are being instructed to set our pride aside in reverence to the only being who's pride is justified. I fear God because he is all powerful. I respect God because he is my Lord. I am in awe of God because he is my creator. A great deal of people choose to overlook the entirety of the bible because there are concepts and passages that are difficult to understand. The truth is that if the bible were 100% comprehendible by anyone, that would imply that it is not the divinely inspired book that it says it is. If the bible truly were the inspired word of God, many of its concepts would be over the head of even the highest level intellectual thinker. Why write it then if even the most intelligent is incapable of understanding its totality?...
"But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him." -1 Corinthians 1:27-29
 God doesn't work on our level of thinking. God doesn't exist for us to understand him. We exist because God understands us. No individual can obtain the wisdom to fully grasp the depth and complete meaning of the bible, leaving an absolute need for interdependence upon both others and, more importantly, God himself. God's word does not contradict itself. God's word fulfills itself in totality through the lives of those who submit to its truths.