Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Proverbs 1:23

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

Wisdom is not so well hidden that it cannot be found. Rather than remain silent and unattainable, she seeks out her suitors and pursues her recipients with a desire to be known. If God is the source of wisdom, and He is, this lady, "Wisdom" is part of His character, and extension of His nature and it is His Spirit that wisdom calls, "mine."

But that does not make the spirit of wisdom the sum total of all the Spirit of God is. To personify wisdom as a lady is not to equate the quality with a deity. She is something, not someone. She flows from God; she is not a goddess.

Yet, wisdom has this uncanny ability to take on a life of its own and move among men with something that resembles a personality.

Wisdom is available. Wisdom can be known. Wisdom can be internalized, verbalized, and realized by even the simplest of people. The next few verses describe the problem: why we don't possess it.

The answer is simple terms is: because we reject it.

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