February 24, 2013 – Proverbs 2

I think it is so interesting when the talk about a characteristic like Wisdom as a person. I don’t know why, but it makes it more tangible. What the “person” of Wisdom does is supposed to be what we do. In the Old Testament, they didn’t have this personification of these different characteristics in any real way. It was all imagery. We have Christ, who is perfect Wisdom, personified in Himself. You can see god sending Jesus to us, God and Man, personification of all that is perfect, is a fulfilling of what Solomon is describing here. You could not have a real and physical personification of perfect wisdom unless God somehow became man, because only God has perfect Wisdom. Thus it can be used in the personification or love, justice, knowledge, all of these Old Testament images are fulfilled in Christ being both God, perfections of all these characteristics, and man, physical and able for us to see, feel, taste, and imitate. We see Solomon describe what Wisdom does and we hear Christ say, “what I have done, you must also do” and there is a connection there.