January 16, 2012 – Wisdom 10

This chapter is a walkthrough of Genesis and Exodus, but Wisdom is the guide. Obviously, God is Wisdom, but the way it is walked through gives you a slightly different take. Read it again and look. Verse 7 refers to Sodom and Gomorra (remains a smoking desert) and Lot’s wife (pillar of salt). Verses 8-9 seems to speak of the tower of Babel (left the world a memorial of their folly). 10 – 12 speaks of Jacob (fled his brother, prospered from labors). 13 – 14 speaks of Joseph (sold, authority over oppressors). And 15 – 19 speaks of Moses (withstood fearsome king, across the Red Sea). We have wisdom being the guide for all these major events of Israel’s past. We take it for granted or as obvious that God was there through all these things. Maybe it will invite us to reflect on events a little deeper if we stop thinking of it as just “God”, but from the individual attributes like this. Can we do it our own life. If we look back at a turning point, do we see God acting in our lives. Can we look back and see that it was Wisdom that was working. Maybe it was Love, or Justice, Healing or any of the other perfect attributes of God.