Proverbs 8:23
“From everlasting I was established,
From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.
Some people only like new things. They like the shiny parts of it; they like the smell of it; they like to be the ones who are the first to own it. But sometimes there are more valuable benefits to finding what is old. The above proverb tells us that wisdom is a very old commodity. In fact, the next seven or eight versus explain that wisdom has been around since the beginning of time and, actually, before time. We have already learned by studying these proverbs that Christ is wisdom (1 Corinthians 1). What Solomon is trying to tell us is that wisdom was with God in Christ, in the beginning, when He created the heavens and the earth. It was in Wisdom that crafted them. Therefore when we call for wisdom what we are actually calling for it is God's nature; God's wisdom in our life. We only have to look a short distance in life to see the wisdom behind what God created. Man spends his life studying creation and cannot fully explain it. He studies the earth: he studies the body: he studies insects: he studies the stars: and he still cannot fathom the depths of the wisdom of God. Yet, in this chapter of Proverbs, we are told that wisdom is as available as air. Wisdom is on the corner of every street crying out for those who wish to have her. We have but to ask. See James. You don't have to go far to find wisdom, you don't have to cry aloud to get wisdom, you don't have to search for wisdom as though it were some lost item or hidden treasure with no map to find her. Wisdom is available to those who humble themselves, fear the Lord, and seek it diligently. It's been here for a long, long, time.
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