There is something speaking to us today, and it isn’t a person in our world. There is something crying out for us to hear, but its voice comes not from a man, woman, boy or girl. There is something so important calling to you and me and everyone around us, and there are such great dangers if we ignore it. What can it be?

Proverbs 8: 1-4 Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding lift up her voice? She takes her stand on the top of the high hill, beside the way, where the paths meet. She cries out by the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entrance of the doors:

What does ‘she’ say? And how is this relevant to today? Why should we ‘listen’ to some thing? Well, for just one reason; Wisdom that speaks is from the God who speaks. LISTEN with your ears and heart, as there is a message designed for you today, and a message designed for you to share today:

       V 22-31.The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way, before His works of old. I have been established from everlasting, from the beginning, before there was ever an earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth; while as yet He had not made the earth or the fields, or the primal dust of the world. When He prepared the heavens, I was there, when He drew a circle on the face of the deep, when He established the clouds above, when He strengthened the fountains of the deep, when He assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters would not transgress His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside Him as a master craftsman, and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him, rejoicing in His inhabited world, and my delight was with the sons of men.

      How amazing that wisdom is presented to us like this. God’s word is never dull; it is full of imagery and shared in such a way that we are not only able to understand it, but to see it as well. Wisdom says, “I was there as He was there. When He formed the mountains; when He told the sea how far it could go.. I was there. I was beside Him; I was His delight, and I always rejoiced in Him and His world.” But look at the end of the last verse. Up until now, it was all about how ‘Wisdom’ related to God. Now Wisdom says that “My delight was with the sons of men”. Wisdom was and is there for us to know. It is ours for the taking; it is not being kept from us, it is graciously offered to us whenever we look for it. But most importantly, wisdom will never be found apart from God.