Wisdom Personified
Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31
From the beginning, the Creator was not alone.
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Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries out: "To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all that live. 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. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth-- when he had not yet made earth and fields, or the world's first bits of soil. When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside him, like a master worker; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race." - Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31
Before anything else existed, God created Wisdom, which the Greeks called Sofia, and we call the Holy Spirit of God.
This is who Jesus spoke about when he was leaving to go to the Father.
It is an interesting relationship these three persons or entities have with one another. One creates, while another is the embodiment of the words God speaks, and the third person of the Trinity imparts God's wisdom on us by speaking God's words to us.
So, all three persons of God's unified presence are involved in our well-being and growth.
Perhaps it is the most confusing aspect of God, this trinity. Do we need to understand it to benefit from it?
It may be confusing for members of our faith as well. Some Christians focus on Jesus as God, praising and worshipping him, while others pray to the Father as Jesus taught, seeing Jesus and the Holy Spirit as guides to help us reach God.
Still others seek wisdom through the Holy Spirit, seeing this aspect of God as the driving force in their lives.
Are all of these wrong, or can they all be right?
\Christians will disagree on this point, some calling other Christians heathens or fools.
We haven't learned wisdom at all, have we?
If God has provided wisdom to us from the very beginning of time, we should seek it, shouldn't we?
Maybe we aren't ready for it. Maybe we need to continue to struggle t o find what is with us all along. That is the human thing to do.
More to come..