Proverbs 8 and 9: Which woman will you court?

 Chapters 8 and 9...it's worth hammering because Proverbs thinks it is..

if all wisdom is to us is wise sayings and life lessons, then we will miss Wisdom.  Wisdom is a person, a person who was with God in the beginning and whose "delight was the children of humankind."  A person who rejoiced before God as They created all that is.  And most of all when They created us.  A person who loves those who love Them and hates all that keeps us from Him.  A person who will give us riches greater than gold and silver and jewels and families and homes and food and wise sayings and life lessons and examples and seven simple steps for a happy, healthy life, for if we come to them we "find life."  The Resurrection and the Life.

"The start of wisdom is fear of YHWH and knowledge of the Holy One, insight."  For if we know Christ, we know the Father (John 14).  

Proverbs with these two women is trying over and over to tell us that "knowing" is experiential, it is holistic, it is comprehensive, it is covenantal.  We are reminded that "to know" in the Bible means so much more than intellectual learning; it means to be one with.  To know the One who made all things, the Alpha and the Omega, the King of kings and Lord of lords, the source of all wisdom and knowledge, to be redeemed to the Father who made us to be His children, forever with Him in Paradise...  to not know Him is to pursue a harlot, a deceiver, adultery (for our true lover and husband is Christ), and thus idolatry.  There are only two options.  If you are not pursuing the one, you are courting the other.

That's bound to make us live a little wiser.