Even before the creation of the world, wisdom was with the Lord. This is a really complicated thought. If the Lord created wisdom what was He before its existence? The creation of wisdom was not for the Lord, rather for man. Our God is omniscient, all-knowing. The Lord created wisdom as a tool of creation and as a way for man to identify with the Creator through the study of creation. Wisdom riddles creation.
"The Lord formed and brought me [Wisdom] forth at the beginning of His way, before His acts of old. I [Wisdom] was inaugurated and ordained from everlasting, from the beginning, before ever the earth existed." Proverbs 8:22-23, Amplified
Wisdom was instrumental in the creation of the world. The Lord ordained wisdom to be a key factor in the creation of the world. There is a scarlet thread that runs through the Bible. From the beginning to the end of the Bible we can find Jesus on every single page, the plan of the Lord in every single book. Without intelligence and wisdom, our God would have never been able to do this. The Lamb of God was slain even before the foundation of the world was laid.
"When there was no deeps, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains laden with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills I was brought forth; while as yet He had not made land, or the fields, or the first of the dust of the earth." Proverbs 8:24-26, Amplified
On the third day of creation the Lord created the dry land. Wisdom led the Lord to separate the light from the darkness even before creating the dry land. The firmament was created before the dry land as well; these were the waters above the waters. It is believed that this was a blanket of precipitation that worked in the same fashion as a green house and were also instrumental in the destruction of the earth. Before the first, second and third days wisdom stood steadfast with the Lord.
"When He prepared the heavens, I [Wisdom] was there; when he drew a circle upon the face of the deep, and stretched out the firmament over it, when He made firm the skies above, when He established the fountains of the deep, When He gave to the sea its limit and His decree that the waters should not transgress [across the boundaries set by] HIs command, when He appointed the foundations of the earth; Then I [Wisdom] was beside Him as a master and director of the work; and was daily His delight, rejoicing before Him always, rejoicing in His inhabited earth and delighting the sons of men." Proverbs 8:27-31, Amplified
By wisdom the Lord set limits to the waters of the seas. Jeremiah the prophet wrote, "'Do you not fear Me?' says the Lord. 'Will you not tremble at My presence, who have placed the sand as the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass beyond it? And though the waves to to and fro, they cannot prevail; though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it.'" (Jeremiah 5:22, NKJV) it is interesting because the Lord was comparing His people to the sea. The sea had a limit placed upon it, and it could not and would not pass. If a mindless body of water obeys the Lord, then what of the human heart? Why is it so hard for the heart of man to remain true to the Lord. Wisdom delights our Lord. Can we not then also delight our Lord through the application of wisdom?
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