Reading Your Bible for today November 9

November 9: Proverbs 8:22-31

KJV Key Verse: Proverbs 8:22
22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

Devotion:
Have you ever switched channels only to hear someone saying something which can be totally taken out of context? It is amusing to sometimes flick channels and see if you can get people to make up sentences without them even knowing about each other. Sometimes you may pick up the Bible and come across a passage you don't quite understand, a passage like this where it is written as if wisdom himself/herself was able to talk.

Wisdom is not to be taken as if it were an attribute of God. We cannot truly say God has wisdom, but we can truly say that God is wisdom. If we were to say God has wisdom, then we are admitting that maybe He can make a mistake, which we know is false.

Wisdom was there with God in the beginning because He is wisdom. Without that, how could He have created the universe in such a balanced way? How could He have created a place where we can live without being thrown off the planet as it spins round at such amazing speeds? With wisdom He created a beautiful earth full of amazing facts we are still discovering.

Without that same wisdom in us, we have destroyed so much of the earth. We continue to make such grave mistakes people all round the earth die from them. We continue to make weapons of mass destruction. We continue to make species extinct. We continue to poison each other with chemicals and smoke. We must sit up and start to take notice of God's wisdom before it is too late.

Points to Ponder:
What wisdom made man create a city on a major fault line?

Who or what else could be our ultimate foundation other than God?