““I love those who love me; And those who diligently seek me
will find me”
“For he who finds me finds life And obtains favor from the Lord. But he who
sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love death.”– Proverbs 8:17;
35-36 (NASB)
This is the voice of Wisdom speaking. The first line of
Proverbs 8 says “Does not wisdom call, and understanding lift up her voice?”
The writer of these proverbs knew the value of wisdom and so in this and other
chapters, Wisdom is given the voice. But it is truly the voice of our Lord God.
We can know this from Proverbs 2:6 “For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth
come knowledge and understanding.” All that God says is wise and worthy to be accepted
as a way to live our lives. In today’s promise we find that Wisdom loves those
who love her and it is to them that she guides in the way of the Lord. The
contrary promise is that those who hate Wisdom, and many do so, we find that
what they love is death. Perhaps they do not think so or know so but anyone
hating wisdom, so as to spurn it, is acting as if he loves death. Life comes to
those who seek and find Wisdom and take it in. Praise be to God who gives us the
path to wisdom and Wisdom itself becomes our gift from God.
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