Wisdom - Who is it? (Pt. 2)

I love this question. While maybe the sense is that perhaps we should be asking "Who" first anyway, that's not the most straightforward way into our language and cultural realizations. To get things clear, we ask 'what' far more often than 'who'. Secondly, it is often easier to try to describe attributes of a person than to think about who a person is, outside of terms of essence. 

Wisdom, as a person, is a lady. Generally, she is the subject of the kind of love and study that everyone desires to have toward themselves, as well as the primary vehicle through whom God created the world and everything in it. She is a Spirit and He is The Spirit. Yes, I called Him a He there, because Jesus called the Spirit a Him. 

By her kingdoms are won, battles are fought, and cities are fortified. It is her work that all the animals have come to be, and her hand is in the depths of the sea. It is not by knowledge that she exists, but at the right hand of the Spirit of the Lord, and at her right hand the Spirit of understanding. She is foreboding and she is kind. Strong as she is meek. Humble as she is proud. Timeless as she is in time. 

Who is able to mimic her? Well, by and large, humans are. We have those cuddly teddy bear types of people running around and hugging people. We also have those honest businessmen who are proud of their empire and meek about their living quarters (it's a bit more rare, but it happens). Then there's Jesus, who did everything in such a way that we can still read His words today, and still feel as if they're relevant. Jesus wasn't a philosopher though, and He spent little time describing essence. Theology today is marked by generations and eons of historical writings and great thinkers before us. Jesus wasn't a thinker though. He was a man. 

And yet, everything that He did is marked and founded in eternities grace, with Wisdom. It's majestic, powerful, and just straight-up good. I want to start creating with Wisdom, and I'm not looking to emulate attributes, but instead have the mark of Her hand on mine. 

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

Wisdom - What is it? (Pt. 1)

Our recognition of Wisdom happens in the same way that we recognize language and music. It can even be related to how we recognize objects as simple as glasses or trees. It happens intuitively within a structured set of beliefs and lessons we hold inwardly to categorize and define things. I've heard it said that Wisdom 'is' knowledge applied. In my opinion, that's a very "workman's way" of seeing wisdom, which isn't necessarily wrong. The ability to apply knowledge is good for productivity, science, and good counseling. However, to look at a tree hand-crafted by The Most High as just 'knowledge applied' is... small. Yeah, it was knowledge applied but if you only see knowledge applied you miss the mark of timelessness that the tree was made with. I don't mean that the trees' life is timeless, all trees die just as all men die. To see timelessness though, you must look at the source, the hands, by which the tree is crafted. 

Take a wood carving, for instance - the art is not defined by the tools used to burn or scalpel the wood into a shape that was foreseen in the minds eye. Tools help the function of expression, just as language helps a poet. If it weren't for the one wielding the blowtorch or the pen the sculpture wouldn't have been created, nor the poem written. Even with Neural networks and AI we can hand the machine tools such as words, and programs to make art, but we haven't yet figured out how to teach a computer how to source the image themselves, for they are without wisdom. 

I would like to pose that wisdom, although by nature divine, can be warped. We see this through grotesque sexuality, violence, and evil perpetrating the world. 'Dark wisdom' if you will. If the man behind the gun didn't have the idea to shoot his wife and kid, the gun wouldn't have done the work itself. 

However, our inward picture is not always either dark wisdom or true wisdom. Much of the time it is mundane and simple. So it is not always wisdom, nor should it be recognized as wisdom, but to refer back to the previous argument we must acknowledge the hands and breath that crafted the inward picture maker. Just as the intention of a poem can be twisted in order to fit a reader's intentions or words can be twisted to gaslight somebody I believe we've allowed our 'inner wisdom' to be twisted by those things which are contrary to God's purposes. 

So what would happen if we were re-imbued with the original purposes of our inner wisdom? Would we be able to create more things with that mark of timelessness and eternity just like our Father did? Were we to draw close to Truth, we would be changed in a way that would radically shift what our hands' works look like. Not only would more things on the earth be marked with timelessness and wisdom, but we would also probably be able to identify the work of Wisdom herself. "Who?" being the next important question in the wisdom series.