Our theme for this month: “Wisdom”
Our Bible verse for today: “Doesn’t Wisdom call out? Doesn’t Understanding make her voice heard?” Proverbs 8:1 (HCSB)
Our thought for today: “Wisdom is available for anyone who wants it.”
Recently the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the invention of the Rubik’s Cube. The Rubik’s Cube is a puzzle in the form of a square plastic block consisting of rows of hinged and rotatable colored spots. The object is to continue twisting and turning the individual rows until all the colors are in perfect alignment. The odds of solving the puzzle are some ridiculous number like 1 in 7,000,000. It’s impossibly difficult but for more than two decades people have been fascinated (and frustrated) by the silly thing.
Fortunately God’s will and His ways are not like that. God doesn’t present us with some impossibly difficult puzzle which we need to twist and turn and grit our teeth over as we try to figure it out. No, His will and His ways are plainly stated in His Word. In the Bible God has told us everything we need to know in order to live a life that is pleasing to Him. And better still, in our day the modern translations of the Bible present God’s wisdom in the simple and straight-forward language that we actually speak everyday. You don’t have to learn Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, or Latin in order to be able to read God’s letter to us. There is no puzzle to solve, no Rubik’s Cube of celestial mysteries to figure out. Just read it, embrace it, and live it.
In Proverbs 8:1 Solomon portrayed Wisdom as going out of her way to call people to herself. He then switches metaphors and uses the image of Understanding, and he tells us that Understanding makes her voice heard. As we follow the progression of the Proverb we discover that wisdom is available to anyone who desires it. Lady Wisdom goes out of her way to call out to people and to make her wisdom available and easily accessible to anyone who wants it.
In this Proverb Solomon is using the literary device of Lady Wisdom to stand for God’s will and His Ways. And so this image is actually designed to illustrate the truth that God’s Will and God’s ways are knowable and easily understood by anyone who wants to know and understand. It’s a matter of the heart.
As a side note, as I write this it is the day before Mother’s Day 2014 and I find it ironically appropriate that as we study the theme of Biblical wisdom, we discover that Solomon uses the image of a woman as the personification of wisdom. How true. Thank God for godly mothers. We learn so much from them. “Thank you” to all the mothers for all you do for us. Happy Mother’s Day.
God Bless,
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