Proverbs 3:19-20; Psalm 19, Wisdom’s Supreme Sphere

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February 2, Proverbs 3:19-20; Psalm 19

John 1:1-14; Rom. 11:33-36 “O the depth both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God.”

Wisdom’s Supreme Sphere

Solomon boldly affirms that God is the Creator, and ‘He’s got the whole world in His hands’ (Gen. 1:1, Col. 1:9-17). Also we have a foreview of the Gospel. Sin blinds man from seeing that “that which moves God to work is Goodness; that which orders his work is Wisdom; that which perfects his work is Power” (Hooker). The Bible repudiates two theories commonly held to explain the origin of everything, namely, that the world is eternal, or that everything evolved by chance plus time. Since Wisdom was God’s Agent in creation (8:22-31), how much more does man need this Wisdom to occupy and subdue the earth as God’s Covenant-keeper!

  1. God, the Source, revealed by General Revelation: This Psalm (Ps. 19:1-6) identifies the Creator of the Universe as everything in it. David had surely studied God’s Book of Nature. For him, therefore, the only explanation of the universe around him was the fact and being of a personal-infinite God. The basic problem confronting all, believer or unbeliever, is the fact that something rather than nothing is here! How? Why? Neither eternally existing matter, nor blind chance, but infinite Wisdom, is the Creator of all. How else can the order of the universe, with its exact planning and precise timing, be explained? David refers to language that conveys to men the truth of the goodness and power of a Creator-God, leaving all men without excuse (Rom. 1). John’s Gospel, like Genesis, opens with the activity of a personal-infinite Creator and the beginning of everything.
  2. Christ, the Saviour, recognised by Special Revelation: David also studied God’s second volume, the Scriptures (Ps. 19:7-11). The God of Nature is also the God of Scripture. Here, abruptly, we meet head-on the law of the Lord. The reason, however, is not far to seek. The Creator is also the Author of Salvation from sin. While the World confronts man unavoidably with God, Scripture discloses the Saviour and man’s inescapable need of redemption. “Revelation in nature and revelation in Scripture are mutually fruitful only when taken together as the finished product of God’s supernatural and saving revelation to man” (VanTil).
  3. Man, the Suppresser, reminded by Personal Revelation: “The skies tell much, the Scriptures tell more, but the soul tells most of all” (Scroggie). Why is man self-conscious about his errors (19:12-14)? It is because he cannot escape the fact that he is created in the image of God, and the ruins remain to remind him. “The lostness of man is not a dogma; it’s a fact” (Tozer). He vainly tries to suppress it, and that he is a rebel and must answer to the Governor of the universe from Whom there is no appeal (Rom. 1). “Man was not created morally neutral. The notion of a morally neutral person is a monstrosity” (Machen). Man can never deny his Creator-God, or himself as God’s creature.

Thought: Man can’t be perfect in a hundred years, but in one day he became corrupt.

Prayer: O, for Spirit-filled preaching that brings conviction and conversion.