Happy Monday and welcome back to the podcast with us. We appreciate that you

listen along each week and on this Monday, Pastor John I want to look at

Psalm 111 there we find a great promise for life.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

That's Psalm 111.

I suspect this is a line that a lot of us know well. We know by heart,

likely a lot of listeners have memorized this verse over the years. Many of us have underlined or highlighted it in our Bibles.

We tweeted it or shared it online at some point.

I've seen some coffee mugs and wall hangings.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

But there's a Christian heat and a spin to this text.

I hadn't noticed until I saw something that you said about it a few years back.

You quoted this text, and then you said this quote as so often in scripture

what happens in the heart governs what happens in the mind, in quote. So here, fear in the heart leads to wisdom in the mind.

We so often approach things the other way around from our head into our heart, getting things from our

head into our heart.

Explain how this works in the other direction, how our hearts govern what happens in our

minds.

Right.

When I say that the heart governs the mind, I don't mean that when our minds are

renewed by the Holy Spirit, they can't exert good influence upon our heart. I don't mean to exclude that.

They do. Renewed thinking helps renewed feeling. That's true. All through the Bible

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