This passage speaks of the personification of wisdom, the
first thing brought forth by God, before there was a world or anything
else. Wisdom came into being and by it
all else came into being. How wisdom
came to be we are not told, it is the underlying principle of creation as well
and the continuing existence of the universe.
In our day there are many who deny the wisdom or intelligent design of
the universe rather holding to blind chance and random mutation as the means by
which all things came to be as we know them.
How does this explain beauty?
Indeed, how does it explain the central question of all existence, why
is there anything at all instead of nothing.
Abraham Heschel, the great Jewish scholar wrote, “The biblical man does
not begin with being, but with the surprise of being. Being is neither self-evident nor
self-explanatory. Being points to the
question of how being is possible.” This
reality he wrote points beyond itself, “The supreme question is not, ‘Who made
the world?’ but rather, ‘Who transcends the world?’” The only way the answer is correct is if you
get the predicate right. If you don’t begin with the possibility there is a God
who created in wisdom and skill, you can’t find the answer in Him. Wisdom tells us this isn’t random or
haphazard, the world operates according to scientific and mathematical
principles, is it any wonder those disciplines discover them as far as they are
able before descending into theory? Wouldn’t
it be more humble to say it was created by a wiser scientist than we can
imagine, an intelligence beyond our own.
It is amazing isn’t it that Jesus gave bread and wine to the
man who would betray Him. If communion
saved you Judas was good to go, but Jesus says otherwise. After he had gone Jesus gave the command to
love one another as the new commandment.
We need to take these words to heart in our own churches but also in the
larger body of Christ that is the church all over the world. We have brothers and sisters in our
communities and also in other places who need us to love them and encourage
them in this journey. Life is tough and
we were told to expect rejection just as Christ was rejected. We are entering a new phase in our own
country where we are no longer the dominant worldview and we will need one
another even more as this time stretches out.
In His wisdom He created not just the world but the church to be that
body of support for one another. We are
not alone in this world because we have one another and we have the Holy
Spirit. His coming into the world made
all that possible. I am truly thankful
for this as one more thing the incarnation means.
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