What Does Wisdom Cry?
For a long time, I was amazed that King David could come up with all those psalms. He didn’t have all the prophets’ writing nor Solomon’s Proverbs. Nor Jesus’ parables. Mostly what he would have had is the mosaic law and all its rules, regulations, and sacrifices. Did he just meditate on those things to get his wisdom?
Proverbs describes wisdom as crying (Prov 8:1) in the top of high places, by the paths (Prov 8:2), at the gates, at the entry of the city, and at the doors (Prov 8:3). These are public places, good places to get people’s attention. Was King David seeing what Wisdom was seeing?
He could have heard cussing using God’s name in vain because the seller’s wares were dropped and scattered. Or a child could lie to his mother about taking his sister’s toy. Or maybe a rich person rode by to watch people’s faces as they coveted his money and possessions.
But then again, maybe he saw a son helping his mother go to a doctor. Or how about a vendor giving a boy a second roll when he saw the boy stealing one? Maybe a husband threw his wife’s carved idol in the fire.
He would have seen the ten commandments both obeyed and disregarded and learned wisdom from it.
There are two ways to get wisdom. Either you learn from observing someone else, or you learn from experience.
© April 2014 by Bonnie Clarkson
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