22 "The LORD possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.
23 Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
24 When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.
25 Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth,
26 before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.
27 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
28 when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep,
29 when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
In the midst of talking about wisdom, I'd forgotten the context. It's not a human idea, it predates us. Godly wisdom existed with God before creation. Before there were rivers, mountains, and fields. Before the sky, the ocean, and the earth, there was God's wisdom. And it has been offered to us through the Bible. I recently got the chance to watch the movie The Book of Eli, staring Denzel Washington. Though the movie itself wasn't that great, the world it created was intriguing. Post-apocalyptic world where the Bible was blamed for humanity's self-destruction. It shows a world without authority, political or Biblical. Men do as they see fit, which as you might guess, doesn't function well.
0 comments:
Post a Comment