Wisdom

Wisdom

The basic meaning of wisdom is skill. The first ten verses of Proverbs form five couplets of two verses each relating to one another. The end of receiving the instruction of wisdom is righteousness and true judgment and equity – fairness, true justice.

A reverential awe of Jehovah the living and true God is the beginning of wisdom (1:6). The one coming to God must believe that He is and that He is the  Rewarder of those who seek Him diligently (Hebrews 11:6).

The instruction in righteousness and true judgment and fairness are as ornaments of grace unto your head when taken into the mind for learning wisdom, and as chains – an adornment about your neck. An evidence seen outwardly of the bowed will to yoke up with the covenant Son and learn of Him.

The covenant Son is the Fountain of wisdom. Sinners are there to entice to the course of the world. Do not go with them. The surest way to deepest peace of heart and mind is to give up self will and live in obedience to the will of God who designed you and created the body of humanity and who brought you into being.

To obey self is sin.

To obey the way of wisdom – the way of truth and life is righteousness.

            Only learning of the covenant Son will fit us to be a vessel fit for the Masters use – a vessel of His skill. In close association with trust in the Lord our God is self – distrust the two things are inseparable.

            The double attitude of trust and distrust finds expression in acknowledging the Lord in all our ways, and not leaning to our own understanding; ordering our conduct under a constant consciousness of His Presence and in accordance with His will, and in dependence upon His being a constant Help in time of need.

Such a relationship could only issue in His directing our path, with no exceptions. He is the Guide. He knows the way. He is the Path maker. He alone can clear the way of obstacles.

Whosoever seeks to go only the way shown and goes where God sends him will never be left in doubt as to where he should go, nor will he find the way blocked.

The fourth couplet (vs.7&8) is in its first part in inverted parallelism with the third couplet (vs.5&6). So one begins with self distrust and proceeds thru understanding of the hidden sayings of the word of wisdom to a reverential awe of Jehovah God, with His perfect love which casts out fear of Him, which leads to following Him and departing from the evil of serving self will which He cannot approve. 

The love of God is like a magnet which draws the heart to trust Him and to trust in Him with the whole heart, mind, emotions and will (Proverbs 3:5-7). In the understanding of the mercy and truth of wisdom, we bow the neck to be led into more and more understanding of wisdom’s ways.

We write them upon the table of the heart where we are trusting in all our ways. Laid out on the table of the heart there is always food for thought - objects of meditation day and night. He who practices them will find favor with God and man.

Men are mostly prone to treat us as we treat them. Most reflect our feelings toward them. Good understanding is found when it is sought with all the heart. The will must be honest in its desire.

When understanding is sought with all the heart it can be shared with others and when understanding is attributed to us as a possession of the graces of wisdom, we win the reputation of being wise.

Really wise policy coincides with the loving kindness and truth of the covenant Son of God – His wisdom. In this way we honor God with our faith which with understanding has substance.

With the buying (believing) of wisdom and the spending of it as He directs we have over and above what we could ask or think.

Despise not the training of the Lord in the understanding of His ways in wisdom. Do not be wearied in His correcting the understanding of His way. It is love that corrects you. He delights in your whole hearted response.

He knows you will be happy in finding wisdom and in getting understanding. Finding wisdom in the law of Jehovah and in His commandments is a way of bringing us into accord with ourselves – getting to know who we are – where we are going - the way we should go – the whole purpose of our having been brought into being – our calling to become a son of God – a son born of God – born from above.

The only complete peace is in the heart satisfaction of having obeyed the wisdom of God. There is no other way of bringing us into accord with our personal being. There is no other way to end the conflict with flesh and spirit. No other way of bringing peace and friendship with our Lord, and with others in the circumstances of this life.

Peace with God – then with self – for peace with others. So that all the training is seen as good and all can be seen to be used for good, because we are not agitated in the circumstances but content in whatsoever place we find ourselves as having followed our Lord there in obedience to His will, understanding and trusting the wisdom of God.

Wisdom is more precious than all the things man could desire. There is nothing to be compared to her. In her alone is length of days – no end of living. She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her? How is wisdom a “tree of life”?

In Proverbs eight, wisdom is personified and personalized with the pronoun “I” – one person. No one could mistake who is wisdom. It is the covenant Son of God. He who took the likeness of man and came in the flesh – sent from heaven with the eternal life and light of the knowledge of the glory of God – wisdom.

God desired to have birthed sons in His image. God could share the life of His spirit being with another personal being – a soul of life, but He could not create a body of eternal life. Eternal life is eternal without beginning or end.  A corporeal body must have a beginning.

The wisdom of God is to bring forth a body from seed. There would be the seed coat holding the life germ of the body to be brought forth after the kind of life germ in the seed coat.

God could and did give a body of human flesh thru the seed of human flesh. The first body of human flesh was formed by God Himself. God had a seed coat. Into the nostrils for the body God breathed a soul – a personal being – of life – His life of spirit being – an invisible immaterial personal  - thinking, feeling choosing being.

God created man male and female that they might reproduce bodies after their kind – bodies of human flesh. The wisdom of God is that His covenant Son came in a body in the likeness of man. identified with man in a body of flesh of humanity, the covenant Son could take the sin of mankind on Himself and burn it out and He could overcome the death passed upon all bodies of human flesh thru the raising -  a new body of His kind out from the dead body.

Because of sin and death passed upon all bodies born of man’s seed the body will stop breathing and corrupt and return to the dust of the ground and perish.

It is the wisdom of God that He have another way to prepare a body for his covenant son to bring forth after His kind- bodies of eternal life. For the body of the coming covenant Son of God, God planned to use living flesh of a woman for the life of the body of human flesh, the seed coat for the Son who is God, who is eternal life.

 The life in the seed coat of the body of the covenant Son Jesus, the son of man, is the seed of a woman. The germ cell of life for the body to be raised up out of that dead body is the eternal God, who is life eternal.

God become flesh – God taking the likeness of man that He might bring forth a living flesh and bone body as seed for Bodies of sons of God – after His kind.

The one condition for access to eternal life is laying hold of the Seed of the Woman -in faith reaching out for understanding of the Seed of the woman – the wisdom of God.

She is the tree of life to those who lay hold of her. In her is length of days – eternal life. When a body is raised up out form the dead it will have everlasting life – never die. That is the life one lays hold of.

It is in faith laying hold on Him to be your life, and to raise up your body out from the dead alive forevermore, reaching out for understanding, and in faith keeping hold – retaining the wisdom of the seed of the woman not letting go of your hold on Him, that true blessedness is your possession.

It is God Himself who brought all into being. The personified wisdom the covenant Son, wisdom, dwells with God. He who is the agent of all creation – become flesh to dwell among His own people who delivered Him up to be crucified.

The third day He arose from the dead, forty days later He returned to heaven where He sits with His Father on the highest throne of the universe as His word goes out to the ends of the earth.

The good news of the Seed of the woman – the wisdom of God goes forth with the invitation to come to Him, lay hold on life eternal, become a born son of God.

He waits, that He might shower, -  those who accept the invitation and come to Him believing that He is - with the manifold blessing of the wisdom of God.  Let wisdom and understanding be ever in your sight. Keep looking unto Jesus the Author and the Finisher of the faith. One prime condition is to have the graces of wisdom laid out on the table of your heart that you might have them to meditate upon day and night.

A day filled with the happy service will be followed by a night of calm slumber. Whether we wake or sleep the sleep of death we are with Him. Both sleeping and waking will be blessed as we keep in the way He is leading.