I was daily filled with delight,
rejoicing before him always,
rejoicing in his inhabited world
and delighting in the children of man. Proverbs 8:30-31
Proverbs 8 exults in God’s creation as the sparklingly bright achievement of Wisdom. So there go superstition, asceticism and all religious grumpiness. Proverbs 8 makes human life sweet and significant for us all as “heirs of the grace of life.”
Wisdom is not a nag. Wisdom breaks through to happiness. God shaped the pre-creation, “without form and void” mess into a world of genius and joy. We have every reason, in the doctrine of creation, to say to God our Creator-Savior, “Here is my messy life. Please re-create me.” If we will, he will, and happily, to the praise of the glory of his grace in Christ.
