Do you think there have always been wise people? How many do you believe are wise today? Do you count yourself among them? Have you considered what it takes to be wise? How long do you think wisdom has been around? How is it acquired? Is it passed down from one generation to another?
Yesterday, we discussed wisdom being personified in Proverbs. Today, we continue that motif. The writer of proverbs steps into the shoes of wisdom and states wisdom existed before the creation of the earth. That wisdom was created by God, just as he created us.
Why should we doubt that? For true wisdom comes from God. Wouldn’t God create wisdom before creating human beings? After all, if wisdom comes from God and God desires us to have wisdom, he would have had to create wisdom before creating humans. In many ways, wisdom is God’s personification, just as Jesus is God in the flesh.
So, how do we acquire wisdom? James tells us in James 5:5 that we should ask God for is and he will give it to you generously. Is it really that simple? Yes and no. The no part of that is that we also must believe and have faith. The deeper our faith, the better we can ask with our whole heart and in accordance with God’s will. Having a deep faith, it becomes simple to ask God for wisdom and trust that he will provide it.
I pray we all know that wisdom comes from God. I pray we have a deep faith in God. I pray each one of us will ask God to grant us wisdom and trust that he will give it to us generously. Wisdom comes from God. Deepen your faith. Ask God for wisdom. Trust it will give it to you.
Proverbs 8:22-23
“The Lord created me at the beginning of his work,
the first of his acts of long ago.
Ages ago I was set up,
at the first, before the beginning of the earth.”
Marty Pressey 