The Involvement of Wisdom in Creation
March 1, 2020
Commentary
The Son of God declares himself to have been engaged in the creation of the world (vv. 22-30). How able, is the Son of God to be the Saviour of the world, who was the Creator of it! The Son of God was ordained, before the world, to that great work. Not a speck of matter, (v.26), not a trace of order (v. 29), come into existence but by the son of God. God was the designer. but His son was involved with him even before the earth began (v. 23).
Te Lord says He was formed before anything else was created (vv. 22-23). He was created before the oceans were made (v. 24), before the mountains were formed (v. 25), before the earth and heavens were made (vv. 26-27), before God set the clouds above and established the deep fountains below (vv. 28-29). He was the architect at the Father’s side (v. 30).
Does he delight in saying wretched sinners, and shall not we delight in his salvation? (vv. 31-36) He was very happy with all that he created, including the human family (v. 31). He said that His children who listened to Him and followed Him would be happy (vv. 32-33). Blessed, happy and thrilled with life is the man who will take time to be alone with God so he can hear His voice and wait for His direction (v. 34). The person who finds Him will find life and the person fails to find Him will find death (vv. 35-36). The person who is too busy to spend time alone with the Lord knows nothing of this promise. Many Christians are so busy with spreading or defending Christianity that they have little time for quiet meditation and communion with God. If we are not careful our minds will be a reflection of our society and not our Lord.
Application
It is so comforting for me to know that my saviour is also my creator. I never want to get so busy that I don’t have time to spend with my creator and my saviour.
Proverbs 8:22– 36 (NET)
22 The Lord created me as the beginning of his works, before his deeds of long ago.
23 From eternity I have been fashioned, from the beginning, from before the world existed.
24 When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing with water;
25 before the mountains were set in place— before the hills—I was born,
26 before he made the earth and its fields, or the top soil of the world.
27 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,
28 when he established the clouds above, when he secured the fountains of the deep,
29 when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
30 then I was beside him as a master craftsman, and I was his delight day by day, rejoicing before him at all times,
31 rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and delighting in its people.
32 “So now, children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.
33 Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise, and do not neglect it.
34 Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching at my doors day by day, waiting beside my doorway.
35 For the one who finds me has found life and received favor from the Lord.
36 But the one who misses me brings harm to himself; all who hate me love death.”
Illustration: Gallup Poll Says 47 Believe in Creation
A recent Gallup Poll found that the greatest number of Americans (47% of those expressing an opinion) hold to the strict creations view, that God created man pretty much in his present form within the last 10, 000 years. Most other Americans believe in some combination of evolution and creationism, and only nine percent of Americans believe in strict evolution. (May, 1993, Christian News, p. 3, from the Evangelical Press).