“For those who find me find life and receive favor from the LORD.”
Proverbs 8:35 (NIV)
Wisdom personified.
Personification is a literary technique, in which an author ascribes the characteristics of a person to a non-person or abstract concept.
Wisdom in Proverbs 8 calls out (has a voice box and a mouth)
Wisdom stands at a high place at a crossroads (has legs and feet)
Wisdom lives with prudence and has possessions (a person)
Wisdom loves people (only a person can love)
Wisdom gives gifts and a rich inheritance (a person)
Wisdom was beside God during creation (a being)
Wisdom has children (a parent/teacher)
Wisdom doesn't find us, rather we need to find wisdom.
We must seek wisdom to find wisdom, we need to watch each day at the door of wisdom’s house, where dwells with prudence, we must wait there – hoping to find wisdom, for when we find wisdom we find life!
Personification is a literary technique.
God’s eternal Son made man is more than a literary technique.
Wisdom come in the flesh – come to save us from our sins is more than a literary technique.
May we listen at His door, may we watch and wait for our Lord.
May He be real in our life, rather than an abstract idea.
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