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Proverbs chapter 8 verse 35 and 36

give us a picture of a wisdom personified so it's wisdom speaking to us as we're reading this

and the Bible says forever finds me so wisdom speaking whoever finds me

whoever finds wisdom finds life and obtains favor from the Lord.

But he who fails to find me injures himself. All who hate me love death. The picture here could not be clearer.

So when we find wisdom, when we seek wisdom, when we ask for wisdom, that's equated in

verse 35 with finding life.

Like all of the abundance God is designed for our life is dependent on us having wisdom.

The opposite of that would be foolishness.

And verse 36 is saying, whoever fails to find wisdom,

whoever walks in foolishness injures himself and all who hate wisdom who walk in foolishness love death.

So there's a there's a picture here. If we want life, then we seek wisdom. If we want death, then we seek

foolishness and we ignore wisdom. And then that phrase, whoever finds wisdom, finds life, and obtains favor from the Lord.

What a beautiful phrase.

Now this is not to be mistaken with this picture of trying to earn God's favor.

We know that any favor from God toward us is purely based on His grace and his mercy.

But that's the beauty of this picture of wisdom.

We have a God who is all wise and who has said,

if you have wisdom you have life and he has said ask of me and I will give it to you

This picture of wisdom saying find me it's an invitation to experience God's grace and in the process of finding wisdom and walking in wisdom to experience to enjoy the favor of God to walk in the favor of God. What a powerful picture so God we pray we want this we want

wisdom help us give us wisdom today we pray and our lives and our families and our work in the church or to help us

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