Be it my only wisdom here

Verse 1
Be it my only wisdom here
To serve the Lord with filial fear,
With loving gratitude;
Superior sense may I display
By shunning every evil way,
And walking in the good.

Verse 2
O may I still from sin depart;
A wise and understanding heart,
Jesus, to me be given,
And let me thro’ thy Spirit know
To glorify my God below,
And find my way to heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.”—[Job] xxviii. 28. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 260.
Publishing: Public Domain