The Beginning Of Wisdom | The Institute for Creation Research

The Beginning Of Wisdom

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do His commandments: His praise endureth for ever” (Psalm 111:10).

This age has rightly been called the “age of information.” With multitudes of books and periodicals in every field of study and practice, with billions of dollars devoted to all kinds of research, and now even the “information superhighway” of the internet, with, it seems, everyone and every organization posting information of sorts on his own web page and e-mail, the world is almost drowning in information.

“But where shall wisdom be found and where is the place of understanding?” (Job 28:12). Job’s urgent question can never be answered “on-line,” but only in an ancient book. “Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding” (Job 28:28).

This spiritual truism is found often in that Book. King Solomon, to whom God had granted special wisdom (I Kings 3:11,12), penned divinely inspired words when he wrote: “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge” and then “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding” (Proverbs 1:7; 9:10).

If anything is missing in our information age, it is surely the fear of God, at least among most people—even most religious people. But, as our text says: “A good understanding have all they that do His commandments.”

From our New Testament perspective, we now know that “In [Christ] are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Colossians 2:3). “And this is His commandment, That we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as He gave us commandment” (I John 3:23). Herein is true knowledge and understanding and wisdom. HMM

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