Seeing Jesus Christ in the book of Proverbs

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/28/2012 7:40 AM

My Worship Time                                       Focus:  What Does Proverbs Say About Jesus Christ?

Bible Reading & Meditation                                     Reference: 

            Message of the verses:  As we continue to look at the introduction of Proverbs through five different questions it must be stated that the format of my Spiritual Diary is different from what it has been, and for that matter will be a bit different throughout the book of Proverbs.  In today’s SD we will seek to see Jesus Christ in the book of Proverbs.  It is good to remember what Jesus said after His resurrection as He was walking on the road to Emmaus.  We are not too sure as to who the disciples were that Jesus was walking with and talking to, but we do know some of the things that He was saying to them, and part of His conversation with them was to go back through the OT Scriptures and show them things in them that pertained to Him, His birth, life, death and resurrection.  Jesus Christ is the main theme of all the Bible and we will take a brief moment to see what the book of Proverbs has to say about Jesus Christ in this SD.

            Let us begin our quest to see Jesus Christ in Proverbs by looking at Col. 2:1-3, “1 ¶  For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on your behalf and for those who are at Laodicea, and for all those who have not personally seen my face, 2  that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself, 3  in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”  I want to focus in on verses two and three and the highlighted part of those verses.  We see here that all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are in Jesus Christ.  Jesus Christ, the second person of the godhead has the very same attributes as the Father and the Holy Spirit, and one of those attributes is having all wisdom.  We have also learned that wisdom is the theme of the book of Proverbs.  First Cor. 1:24 & 30 tell us Jesus Christ is our wisdom, “but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.  But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption.”  As we study the book of Proverbs we will see many great qualities of wisdom along with knowledge and other important things of which Jesus Christ walked in them while on this earth, and by doing this He has become a pattern for us to follow, “the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked (1John 2:6).”

            In Proverbs 8:22-31 we see a section that speaks of wisdom, wisdom that the Lord used when He created the earth, and this section suggests Jesus Christ as the eternal wisdom of God:  “22 ¶  "The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way, Before His works of old. 23  "From everlasting I was established, From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth. 24  "When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water. 25  "Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills I was brought forth; 26  While He had not yet made the earth and the fields, Nor the first dust of the world. 27  "When He established the heavens, I was there, When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep, 28  When He made firm the skies above, When the springs of the deep became fixed, 29  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; 30  Then I was beside Him, as a master workman; And I was daily His delight, Rejoicing always before Him, 31  Rejoicing in the world, His earth, And having my delight in the sons of men.”

            We see in the following passages that Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God was with God at the time of creation.  John 1:1-4, “1 ¶  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2  He was in the beginning with God. 3  All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. 4  In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.”  Hebrews 1:1-4 “1 ¶  God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, 2  in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. 3  And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become as much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they.”  Colossians 1:15-17 “15  He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16  For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities-all things have been created through Him and for Him. 17  He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.”

12/28/2012 8:31 AM