Day 21 Wisdom is the Word | Proverbs 3:19-20

Wisdom Word

We all need wisdom. Even God used his wisdom to make the world.

This paragraph is similar to John 1:1-3. ‘In the beginning was the word. The word was with God. The word was God. He was with God in the beginning. God made everything by his word. He made nothing without the word.’

John explains that ‘the wisdom word’ means Jesus. Jesus was always with God, because Jesus is God.

To emphasize the extraordinary magnitude of God's wisdom, Solomon appeals to creation. We can only stand in awe of God's creative wisdom. We see signs of it everywhere, from the hummingbird to the Himalayas, from the human body to the heavenly bodies, from the earth below us to the sky above us, from the bluebird to a sunburst, from a minnow to a manatee, and from a rainforest to a rainbow. Only the all-wise God could create such a diverse universe. Psalm 19:1presents the potent testimony of God's creation: that which God created "declares" His glory.

In the book of Job, God answers Job's struggling questions by reminding him of this same idea the wisdom word. Out of the whirlwind, God asked: "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?…Who determined its measurements…" (Job 38:4–5). No one can fathom the depths of God's wisdom (Isaiah 55:8–9), yet He condescends to share some of His wisdom with those who trust and obey Him. James 1:5 states: "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him."

Solomon extols God's knowledge by recalling that the Lord burst open reservoirs of water that were below the earth in the time of Noah. Genesis 7:11 reports that "in the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened." In those days, unbelievers might have mocked Noah as he built an ark and preached. They felt safe. But in His knowledge the Lord burst the fountains of the deep and silenced Noah's critics.

Rain also serves as a reminder of how God's design, through His wisdom, accomplishes His will. When the Lord questioned Job, He asked: "Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain…to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man, to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground sprout with grass?" (Job 38:25–27). That, is a wisdom word.

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