Proverbs 8: (NIV) “Does not wisdom call out?
Does not understanding raise her voice?
2 At the highest point along the way,
where the paths meet, she takes her stand;
3 beside the gate leading into the city,
at the entrance, she cries aloud:”
Don’t you hear her cries, calling to us as we continue down our roads to destruction? We watch as our nation drives itself into financial bondage with China. We watch as violent crimes continue to rise. We watch silently as poverty throughout the world rises. We watch while teenage suicide is on the rise. We watch as our own life spirals down into desperation, agony, and defeat. Don’t you hear the cries of wisdom and understanding bidding you to hear her voice? It is that voice that began before the world was formed—born out of the very essence of God Himself and flowing forth through the very image of Christ. An ever flowing light of truth, righteousness, and unimaginable beauty; wisdom was personified in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Just as wisdom was born in the essence of God—Christ being forever the display of the “body” of the trinity—the Word of truth is the perfect display of wisdom in its fullness. Apart from God there is no true wisdom.
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There is no greater beauty than that of Christ’s love and righteousness. His righteousness demands a hatred of sin; for it is that sin which separates each of us from His presence. Sin, born within the hearts of our own self-exaltation and desires to be wise within our own self, blinds us completely from enjoying or seeing the magnificence of His perfect love, wisdom, joy and glory.
How else could Adam have not recognized what he had with God? By all that it is, God must hate evil—for evil and sin is the absence of God; just as darkness
is the absence of light. The magnificent work of Christ upon the cross, His willingness to bare our sins with agony greater than any of us could imagine. This joyous; yet, weeping Savior was undeserving of any pain. Still was willing to bear our sin on the cross; so that blinded mankind might see a glimpse of pure love, pure righteousness and pure glory magnified. He continues to plead to this broken, dying world—“Come, seek me and I will heal you. Come, that I may cleanse you from that self-centered heart so that you might know true joy in me. Come, let me clothe you in my righteousness. Come, let me fill all your brokenness with my love. Come all that thirst to be filled from the fountain of living water. Come all you who are dying that you might live life abundantly in me. I am the treasure that you seek. I am the love your heart longs for. I am your joy. Come.”
Do you know Him whose very essence is wisdom personified? Do you hear the cries in the streets? Let me end with this quote from Jonathan Edwards “A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God’s power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God’s wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.”
THE LOVE OF GOD – Traditional Hymns
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