Holy Trinity: First Reading, Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31                 

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31

Just a brief thought perhaps on a line or two of this week’s reading. Unusual it is that we get to hear from King Solomon, but this week we do. The eighth proverb is a treatise on God’s wisdom and its availability to anyone who wants access to it. Wisdom is personified, and although there is no direct statement that wisdom stands for the second person of the Trinity, the inference is unmistakable. Running just a bit with that today, I want to point the final two verses which read:

“Rejoicing in His inhabited world, and my delight was with the sons of men.”

Wisdom is speaking of the joy he has received being at the very right hand of God during the creation. And for the grandeur of creation seen even in inanimate objects, the speaker in the proverb tells what most thrilled his heart: the inhabited world and the sons of men. Wisdom (God, the Son) is taken with people, the inhabited world. And I believe I know why. It is that part of creation that has and can have communion with its Maker. That “mystic, sweet communion” the well-known hymn sets before us. God in fellowship with his people. As Dr. Mitchell used to remind us: God yearns for your fellowship. It blew me away then. It still does. God delights in us.