The speaker here who begins with the phrase, The Lord
possessed me at the beginning of his work…" is wisdom. A characteristic of the Lord, not another
person. Prior to the beginning of all
things there was wisdom and in that wisdom the Lord is said to have taken
delight. In wisdom, then, was the world
created. He is not an
"in-process" God who learns from creation or developments in
creation, all the wisdom He needed was there prior to anything else coming into
being. What wisdom or other gain could
He get from watching us who were created from the leftover stuff after His
purposeful creation of the things mentioned in the passage? We were indeed and are, as we are reminded on
Ash Wednesday, nothing more than dust without the breath of life from Him. We should delight and rejoice in the wisdom
of God personified for us in Jesus. The
Word and wisdom of God became flesh and dwelt among us and now that same Word
and wisdom dwell in us by the power of the Holy Spirit. Amazing to consider.
As I have loved you, so are you to love one another. Jesus, who had every reason to not love us
rebellious sinners who rejected Him as savior on the cross, loved this
collection of dust and DNA and died willingly for us that we might become like
Him. The first way to become more like
Him is to love one another not according to human love analogues but according
to the love He shows. Too often we
choose unwisely how to love because we don't ponder the way in which Christ
loves us, self-sacrificially and without measure. We have been given a new heart with which to
love Him and one another, why do we then fail to love any but ourselves. We are meant to show the world what real love
looks like, real wisdom, not worldly wisdom.
Wisdom knows some things the world doesn't know, the beginning and the
end for instance.
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