Wisdom’s Cry

Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding lift up her voice? 

Proverbs 8:1  

To you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of men. O you simple ones, understand prudence, and you fools, be of an understanding heart.  

Proverbs 8:4-5

If all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Christ, then we cannot speak of wisdom without speaking of Him. Proverbs 8 personifies wisdom. Therefore when we come to the passage Christ is here. Our text begins by speaking of wisdom crying out and lifting up her voice. The next two verses describe her as being ‘on the top of the high hill beside the way where the paths meet, and at the gates of the city.’ Thus, wisdom is everywhere a person might go. The second portion of our text articulates her invitation to all who will hear. Wisdom appeals to all to come to her, ‘to understand prudence.’ This reminds us of Jesus’ action on the last day of the feast of tabernacles, ‘On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’  The similarity between this incident and the description in Proverbs is striking. Christ calls us to come to Him. He declared that He came into the world, ‘to seek and to save that which was lost.’ To answer His call, to embrace Him as He offers Himself is to find the storehouse of wisdom. We find Him everywhere in the Scriptures and always to do us good. 

Our Gracious Master and our God, 
we rejoice that You embody wisdom. 
We praise You that as we come to You, 
we learn to be wise.  

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning