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Wisdom (Proverbs 8) – Day 20

Proverbs 8:25-27

Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was given birth, before He made the world or its fields or any of the dust of the earth. I was there when He set the heavens in place, when He marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,

The Thought

The end of our chapter on Proverbs gives us a beautiful image of creation with much more detail than we read in Genesis1. Wisdom in today’s verses sounds like a young girl who is excited to be sharing what she remembers about her own origins. Hear the pride in her enthusiasm as she boasts I was there!

What an amazing time that must have been in the beginning; to be there and watch Creator God at work! There must have been moving images, producing an experience better than any cartoon designer can portray; better than any artist can draw or paint.

Few of us have the artistic ability to imagine the world with no horizon on the face of the deep. What did it all look like before? Just nothingness? Few of us would even give these things a second thought, at least during a normal working day, but many of us would appreciate some of the things we see around us; different birds and animals, maybe insects, flowers and trees!

Action

Take note today of some of the things you don’t usually think about or look for:- the living things in our God-created world, such as a spider making a web, a “weed” coming up between the flagstones on the pavement, a bird scratching for something to eat.

Give thanks to our amazing Creator for each thing which has its own beauty and its own purpose, making an effort to survive.

Thank Him for the gift of sight, and eyes that work, remembering to thank Him too for opticians and those who make the glasses or lenses that many of us wear!

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