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Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Proverbs 8:1-21
As in Proverbs 1:1-33, Wisdom turns to those who are lost and re-echoes her calls of grace. She positions herself this time on the high places, on the roads, at the gates of the city, everywhere where the people and the world pass by. The cross-roads (the places of the paths) (v. 2) is where it is possible to change direction. It is there, in the parable, that the servants of the king are sent, to seek out and bring in as many people as they find (Matthew 22:9). Ch. 9 will show us that Wisdom also has prepared her table and that she sends out her servants to confirm her invitation. You who are perhaps still walking on the broad road, it is for you now to reply to the insistent voice which calls you at the cross-roads. This voice is the voice of the Lord Jesus who desires your happiness. To those who listen to Him, He speaks excellent things, these words so right and clear and true (vv. 6, 9). He has treasures in store which are beyond comparison with the silver and gold of this world. He gives an inheritance of durable riches (v. 18), substance (v. 21), future blessings – "better" and "enduring" as they are also called in Hebrews 10:1; Hebrews 10:34. In truth, how glorious is that "which God has prepared for them that love him" (1 Corinthians 2:9; cf. vv. 17-21).
