Proverbs 8:12–21
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a world that is drunk on the idea of autonomy. Modern man believes he is a self-made man, living in a self-made world, governed by self-made laws. He wants to be his own god, his own king, and his own lawgiver. The result of this project is not the utopia he imagines, but the chaos we see all around us. Our political discourse is a shouting match, our ethics are a sentimental swamp, and our pursuit of wealth leaves us spiritually bankrupt. We are trying to run the world using software that is fundamentally incompatible with the hardware. In the book of Proverbs, wisdom is personified as a woman, calling out in the streets, offering life to all who will listen. But she is no mere abstraction, no clever literary device. She is the personification of the divine logic, the very grain of the universe.