To deliver you from the way of the evil man,

from the man that speaks forward things

Proverbs 2:12

the subject for today is:

Wisdom - a person

Let us again open the Bible and read some from it

Today from: Proverbs 2:12-22

Proverbs 2:12-22

¹²To deliver you from the way of the evil man,

·        from the man that speaks forward things;

·        ¹³Who leaves the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

·        ¹⁴Who rejoice to do evil,

·        and delight in the forwardness of the wicked;

·        ¹⁵Whose ways are crooked, and they forward in their paths:

¹⁶To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flatters with her words;

·        ¹⁷Which forsakes the guide of her youth,

·        and forgets the covenant of her God.

¹⁸For her house inclines unto death, and her paths unto the dead.  ¹⁹None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

²⁰That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

·        ²¹For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

·        ²²But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

Dear Friends,

A few days ago we touched the thought that in the book of Proverbs, particularly in the first nine chapters, wisdom and foolishness are seen as persons.

Jesus was also using the device of personification when He said in Matthew 11:19, "But wisdom is proved right by her actions."

Some have thought that the personification of wisdom in the Scriptures indicates that wisdom is to be seen as a personality, perhaps a member of the angelic hierarchy, who visits men and women and imparts to them divine wisdom, but this, in my opinion, is taking things too far.

The writer is simply using a literary device to make a point.

However, it is the opinion of most evangelical commentators that the device of personification as it relates to wisdom is to prepare the way for the apostle Paul's great statement in 1Corinthians 1:24 that Christ is "the power of God and the wisdom of God."

If this is so, then it suggests that the divine purpose underlying the personification of wisdom in Proverbs is not simply to acquaint us with an absorbing set of rules or helpful suggestions by which to run our lives, but to hint that true wisdom lies in a Person, that Person being none other than our Lord Jesus Christ.

Christianity moves beyond the wisdom of Solomon, which, by the way, commends itself to non-Christians as well as Christians, and points to the fact that the highest wisdom comes from a relationship with the One who is the fountain of all wisdom - Jesus.

Knowing the principles of wisdom is one thing;

knowing the Person in whom all wisdom resides is another.

PRAYER:

O Father, how can I sufficiently thank You that by faith I am linked to the source of all wisdom - the Lord Jesus Christ? Let the wonder of this relationship - I am in Him and He is in me - sink deep into my soul today. Amen.

FURTHER STUDY:

1Cor.1:18-25; Isa.11:1-5; Matt.13:54    

·         How does Paul describe Jesus?

·         What did people testify of Jesus?

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