Posted on 01/07/2022 10:45:46 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?” (Proverbs 8:1 KJV).
In chapter 8, we have a picture of a preacher that is wise to sin, and the discourse is on the fact that we ought to listen to the preacher. Not only that, but Christ is personified—in other words, wisdom is given human attributes. Wisdom in the chapter is going to personify Jesus Christ.
“Doth not wisdom cry?” Did that young man in chapter 7 die because there was no one to warn him? No, wisdom was crying in the streets. We saw that when we started the book of Proverbs. The young man just wouldn’t listen to wisdom. He listened to wickedness. Do you know what sin is like? Sin is like something that looks good, feels good, tastes good, sounds good—everything’s ‘good’ about it—but then it ends up sour.
Doing it God’s way is just the reverse. It starts out sour—repentance, rebuke, weeping, getting right, then it starts to get good. Then the heart is full of joy, the heart is full of peace, “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God” (Ro 5:1). Then you get that Holy Ghost leading, guiding, directing; and you start helping folks to get saved, you go to the right church, you start giving to missionaries. Wow! What started out sour starts turning sweet.
The world doesn’t want anything sour . . . they want it sweet all the way through . . . but there ain’t nothing sweet all the way through. Nothing. Everything in this world starts out sweet and then turns sour or starts out sour and turns out sweet. Is there any fruit that starts out sour and ends up sweet? Well, yea, all fruit when it is ripe. Bananas are horrible when they are green, but give them some time. Let the sun shine on them a while until they turn a golden yellow – and then there is nothing sweeter!
“Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?” She does. See what God told Isaiah: “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins” (Isa 58:1 KJV). In every age, God has someone preaching for him. In every place, God’s got a witness.
Many times I have heard people say, “God knows.” Indeed, the Bible reveals that God is omniscient (all-knowing),
God Knows:
1. His sheep (John 10:14, 27). 2. Them that trust Him (Nahum 1-7). 3. Them that are His 2 Timothy 2:19). 4.Tle way that we take (Job 23:10; Psalm 1:6). 5. What things we need (Matthew 6:8, 32). 6. Our frame (Psalm 103:14). 7.The days of the upright (Psalm 37:18). 8. What we are (Psalm 139:1). 9. What we do (Psalm 139:2). 10. What we think (Psalm 139:2). 11. All our ways (Psalm 139:3). 12. What we say (Psalm 139:4). 13. Where we go (Psalm 139:7--12). 14. Our hypocrisy (Mark 12:15). 15. The proud (Psalm 130:6). 16. Our foolishness (Psalm 69:5). 17. Our abode, our going out, our coming in, our rage against Him (2 Kings 19:27). 18. Our works and thoughts (Isaiah 66:18; Psalm 04:11; Revelation 2:2, 9, 13, 19). 19. Our transgressions and sins (Amos 5:12). 20. When we do not have the love of God in us (John 5:42). 21. All things (Acts 15:18; 1 John 3-20).
Surely, we can say with Hannah, “The LORD is a God of knowledge”! (1 Samuel 2:3), and exclaim with Paul, “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!” (Romans 11:33).
God knows you; I trust that you know Him, because knowing Him is life eternal (John 17:3)
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