BIBLE COMMENTARY/Psalm 111: 10
PSALM 111: 10 – The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; All who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.
– People always think that they are wise enough to choose their actions and live their own lives, but that kind of wisdom is actually the greed of their eyes (Proverbs 12: 15, 26: 12).
– As they see something that they like and they try to have it, to satisfy their desires, they think that they themselves are wise. But more than often, the things they like satisfy them only in a short time, but after that they leave them miserable and more greedy. That’s why people always want something new and newer and never completely satisfy with the things they had.
– For example, human’s wisdom about wine and women attractiveness are two things that never satisfy human desires (Proverbs 23: 31-32, Proverbs 31: 30)
– The real wisdom is fearing God and following His commandments. A person who fears God will never want to do things according to his personal desires. God is holy so things that He wants us to do are all goods for ourselves (Proverbs 3: 7).
– For example, God wants us to avoid drinking, smoking, gambling and deviant lifestyles (Proverbs 23: 20-21, 1Corinthians 3: 17, 1Timothy 6: 10, 1Corinthians 6: 18). They will certainly hurt us one way or another.
QUOTED VERSES:
PROVERBS 3: 7 – Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil.
PROVERBS 12: 15 – The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice.
PROVERBS 23: 20-21 – Do not mix with winebibbers, or with gluttonous eaters of meat; For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
PROVERBS 23: 31-32 – Do not gaze at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly! In the end it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.
PROVERBS 26: 12 – Do you see a person wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for them.
PROVERBS 31: 30 – Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
1CORINTHIANS 3: 17 – If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
1CORINTHIANS 6: 18 – Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
1TIMOTHY 6: 10 – For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.