Proverbs 8:26

The book of Proverbs gives us insights into so many different areas of life. The book gives us instruction on how to live our lives for God. Here is a proverb that gives us insight about wisdom and creation:

Proverbs 8:26 (NASBStr)

While He had not yet made the earth and the fields,

Nor the first dust of the world.

Proverbs 8:26 (ESV)

before he had made the earth with its fields,

or the first of the dust of the world.

Solomon is continuing an argument to explain that God, by His Wisdom, created the universe.  There is a lot of talk about in our world of science and discovery of what was before anything was as it is.  Before there was an earth, dirt, mountains or anything, what was there?   Solomon is telling us in this proverb: Wisdom was there before their was any dirt.   The atoms of the world were proceeded by the Wisdom of God.   Everything we see was the result of God's Wisdom through the audible function of His Word.   When He spoke the world came forth.   His Word was spoken through His Wisdom.    Wisdom is Christ and Christ is Wisdom (1 Corinthians 1).   Solomon is telling us that Christ was there at the beginning and was the instrument of creation.  Even before the World was created we can rejoice that the wisdom we ask God to supply us, was there in the design and construction of this world.   When we rejoice over wisdom and have it provided by faith in Christ, we have the wisdom He used to form the earth.  So, when we ask for wisdom, remember what we are asking God to give us.  Scientists, bound by their rules of logic, start with science to determine how things came about.  That is all they have.  Their conclusion is that the concept of evolution is a legitimate, rational argument.   Even Christian scientists are in agreement that evolution is the best way to describe what we have. Yet, God’s Word is pretty clear: God designed it and God spoke it into existence!  What if both are right?  What if God created it all through His spoken Word but designed it in a logical evolutionary manner. God does not have to create it via evolution but He could have designed it so that man would logically see the design with the “human” rational mind.  But God is not obligated to live or create within man’s logic.  When He told Moses to speak to a rock that would pour out millions of gallons is water, was that logical based upon man’s logic? When Jesus told Peter to walk on water, was that logical?  No, on both accounts!  Yet, the water flowed from solid rock in the one case and became a solid rock in the other.  This is illogical.  It is illogical to believe God created the world to look like a world that would and could evolve, but in reality simply came into existence by God’s wisdom.  But we ought to start with what GOD says, first. Then go from there.  God’s wisdom was there BEFORE anything was made (however it was made).  That we know as truth!