Proverbs 8:29

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 God, creation, boundaries and wisdom:

Proverbs 8:29 (NASBStr)

When He set for the sea its boundary

So that the water would not transgress His command,

When He marked out the foundations of the earth;

Proverbs 8:29 (ESV)

when he assigned to the sea its limit,

so that the waters might not transgress his command,

when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

Wisdom is being described in chapter eight of Proverbs.   Solomon is giving us a blow by blow picture of Wisdom.   In the above proverb we see that wisdom is making sure the boundaries of the sea and the land remain in their places.   Wisdom was there when God marked out the boundaries of the sea.  Without God's Wisdom the world's balance would be out of sorts.   God established boundaries to assure that we could be safe and live in security.   Without God's wisdom, life, the planet, would be in constant chaos.  In Romans 8:22 we read that creation groans in pain, waiting for the redemption that is in Christ.   Because of sin the world is falling apart.   Jesus told us that in the end times there would be earthquakes.   The earth is in pain.  It groans.   It pushes against the boundaries set for it.   If we didn't have the design of creation, by Wisdom, we would all parish.    God has made the seas to be right where they are.  Even though, through storms (the results of sin), the seas bellow and surge, crossing those boundaries, God is still in charge.   We can rejoice in the fact that God rules the universe and set the boundaries fast and sure.