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Proverbs chapter 9 verse 10 says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom

and the knowledge of the holy one is the

beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the holy one is insight.

Now we've seen this phrase before in Proverbs,

the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and then you see the second phrase

that kind of parallels the first phrase here so it's basically saying the same

thing repeating it but using different words the the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,

and, so the parallel is, the knowledge of the Holy One

is Insight.

So we're seeing the Fear of the Lord

in a sense equated here with the knowledge of the Holy

One and wisdom equated with insight.

So just as the fear of the Lord leads to wisdom, so the knowledge of the holy one leads to insight which just brings us

back to if we want wisdom in our lives it starts and we've seen this from the very

first chapter with the fear of the Lord and here described as the

knowledge of the Holy One. So the more we know God, the more we know the Holy One, the more we know God in all of His holiness and glory

and majesty and might and all of his attributes and all of his characteristics the more we know God

The wiser we will be the more insight we will have in this life

So we pray God, we want to know you more.

Like today, this is our prayer.

We want to know you more. We want to know you more fully, more completely.

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