Dearly beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, we looked last week at the search for wisdom. That search yields twin results — a religious result, summed up in v. 5, and an ethical result, summed up in v. 9. Those twin results are matched by the perfect divine-human cooperation that runs through the first 9 verses of this chapter. Clearly, wisdom is something you will have to seek for. Yet just as clearly, wisdom is something God-given. The chapter openly advances both of these truths to us, not expecting us to find a “contradiction” or even to see any difficulty as to how wisdom could be both something we attain and something God grants us. In fact, as we keep reading next week, we will go on to see that it is through the discipline of wisdom worked into our characters that God protects us from evil men and evil women. Proverbs, like the rest of Scripture, sees absolutely no disjunction or opposition between our work and God’s. What I hope to show you this morning is that wisdom is both gift and task, and in that realization we find the ethical maturity that this book was written to give us.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...
