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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Proverbs 8:22-36
"That which God hath prepared for them that love him" has its source in Christ. He Himself is "the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory" (1 Corinthians 2:7; 1 Corinthians 2:9; see also 1 Corinthians 1:30). Vv. 22 to 31 take us back in the course of time beyond the beginning of created things, as far as our thoughts can reach. Wisdom was already there, a Person by the side of God: the Son with the Father, in a reciprocal fulness of love and joy, to plan and then to realise together the work of creation. But in addition we learn something quite extraordinary here: before a single man existed, before there was a world for him to inhabit, even before the dust of the world was formed, we, that is you and I, were known and loved. "My delights were with the sons of men" – such is the marvellous declaration of the Well-Beloved of God, even before the beginning of time. He did not want to enjoy the Father’s love alone, and all the work which He was going to undertake had this grand ultimate design: to introduce man, saved and perfected, into His own joy, to the glory of God His Father.
