Proverbs 1:20
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Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
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Why do you keep hurting yourself? When will you get tired of pain? What will it take to make you try a different approach to life? Why do you listen to fools calling (1:10-19)? You must love death, because you keep making choices in that direction (8:36). A happy and successful life is being offered to you. A glorious woman is crying for your attention. She is near you right now. Can you hear her in the streets? She is crying for you!
Reader! Lady Wisdom wants your attention. She will give you wisdom, which leads to the best possible life in this world and the next. All you have to do is take her offer! What is she saying? "How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you" (1:22-23).
Most people suffer in pain and trouble, year after year, generation after generation. They must love fear, grief, dysfunction, and destruction, because they never change. Parents divorce; the children purpose they will never divorce; the children end up divorcing. A father commits adultery; his son vows he will never do such a thing to his wife; he commits adultery. Sin and suffering are endlessly perpetuated from one fool to the next.
A grandfather is a drunkard; his children, grandchildren, and nephews swear they will never abuse alcohol; but half end up being drunkards just like their grandfather. A foolish rebel argues and fights with his parents, finally being thrown out to fend for himself. He fights at school; he fights in the military; he fights with employees and employers. His wife leaves him; his children hate him; but he fights on to the very last breath.
A little Hindu girl wonders why a million gods do nothing, the neighbor's cow is uncle Rahul, her dear grandma was burned to death at grandpa's funeral, her nation bathes in the filthy Ganges, she could be burned to death if her family does not pay a big dowry to the groom's family, and why nations worshipping Jehovah and Jesus Christ are free from such terrible superstitions and live prosperously. Yet, she grows up to be a big Hindu.
The blessed Creator God of heaven - the Lord Jesus Christ - offers wisdom through the heavens He created (Ps 19:1-6), the Bible (Ps 19:7-11), and preachers (Jer 3:15; Col 1:28-29; II Tim 3:16-17). Lady Wisdom, Solomon's personification of wisdom, calls for you to take advantage of these offerings. But most men choose to believe Darwin, Nietzsche, Spock, Freud, Gandhi, and Dr. Phil. What does God do? He rejects their prayers, blinds them to truth and wisdom, and rewires their brains to do inconvenient things - like sodomy (1:20-32; Rom 1:18-32). Lady Wisdom is calling. Reader, it is time to answer.
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