Raleigh and Running Water

So I am doing dishes yesterday and the sink is filling with water. I am easily distracted so I start playing with my cat. I kick the hair scrunchy (my wife's, be nice) across the linoleum floor and watch him chase it. Then he began paying attention to the water running into the sink and becomes trans-fixed like a little kid during his first Fourth-of-July celebration. I pick the cat up and bring him over to the basin that is filling up with water and hold him basically over the sink as he stares at the running water. I am finding this entertaining because this is the same stuff he gets hit in the head with a stream of, when he gets on the table or scratches my wife's grandmother's sewing bench. I think to myself, "If you only knew what this stuff was, you would be so scared right now."
Did you catch it? Did you notice the biblical reference? My favorite bible verse as a kid was always: Heb 11:1 "Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, the proof of things unseen." To which I would always translate as, "If so many people believe...". It is February in Michigan right now and if that thinking was outside my window, it would be a STEAMING pile of poo. But soon it would be crunchy and then it does not track so much.
"The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge." That is the biblical reference my cat's curiosity reminded me of. Maybe it does not mean: "Smart people get it." as I had always thought. Maybe it means, "You know and can recognize Him." And maybe that is where it begins. Faith is not "group think" or what you do. Maybe faith is the filter between what you hear and how you act.