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Proverbs 9 continues
the theme of wisdom that we’ve felt largely throughout the book. Again, we hear that wisdom is willing to call
out to all people. Obviously the wise have
already partaken of what wisdom has to offer.
The simple, too, are her focus.
Those who have no sense are invited by her to come and learn.
I love this
dynamic, and it fits completely within the character of God. God took those who could not save themselves
and made a way for them to be what they could not be on their own. Wisdom does the same thing. Those who have no wisdom are not sent away;
those who have no wisdom are invited in so that their nature can change!
This brings
us generically to one of my favorite qualities about God. God does what He does because He desires us
to be become more like Him. He wants us
to take our broken sinful nature and replace it with His perfect nature. Not that we become gods, mind you. Not at all!
What happens is that our flawed beings become more like Him.
Then, of
course, there is folly. Folly does what
sin does. Folly calls out to those who
don’t know better and gives them the easy way.
Folly invites people to stay the same.
Folly invites people to do what they have to do – even if they have to
do it in secret. Folly is about being
who you are rather than admitting where one needs to grow and then going
through the hard work of being something better.
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