01/11/2025
Good Evening Bathgate, our pastors are out tonight. Please pray for fruit to come from their work and for their safety tonight. Pray also for the safety and guidance of those out tonight and that the pastors will walk with true wisdom, knowing how to help those in need tonight.
Psalm 111 v 10 tells us “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!”
In a commentary by John Gill, he breaks down the first part of the psalm:
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,.... The fear of the Lord, whose name is revered, is not a fear of his judgments here or hereafter, but of his goodness and grace; it is a reverential affection for him, a fiducial fear of him, a fear of offending so good a Being as he is; and it includes all religious worship of him, inward and outward, private and public; and at this true wisdom begins; a man begins to be wise when he fears the Lord, and not till then; this is his highest wisdom, and this is, as it may be rendered, "the chief of wisdom" (i), the principal part of it; see Proverbs 9v10.
