Textbox center Lady Wisdom and Folly the Broad Proverbs 1:20-33; 9:1-19.

Lady Wisdom and Folly the BroadProverbs 1:20-33; 9:1-19

In poverty I begin to view everything rightly again… Lady Poverty, I love you… in your embrace I am rich indeed… when we look into your eyes, we see Christ himself.

St Francis of Assisi

1. When we cry out for wisdom, we cry out for God.

1. When we cry out for wisdom, we cry out for God.

2. Having wisdom is having intimacy with God, knowing him, his thoughts and ways.

1. When we cry out for wisdom, we cry out for God.

2. Having wisdom is having intimacy with God, knowing him, his thoughts and ways.

3. There is a window of time, an urgency,to take Wisdom’s path.

23If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured my heart out to you and made my thoughts known to you. But since you rejected me when I called and gave no heed when I stretched out my hand, since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke, I in turn will laugh at your disaster;

28Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but not find me. Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord, since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke, they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.

Proverbs 1:23-32 (selected)

Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.

Proverbs 5:15

1. When we cry out for wisdom, we cry out for God.

2. Having wisdom is having intimacy with God, knowing him, his thoughts and ways.

3. There is a window of time, an urgency,to take Wisdom’s path.

4. Those who love Lady Wisdom want tohear/heed what she says.

Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult; whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse. Do not rebuke a mocker or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man and he will love you. Instruct a wise man and he will be wiser still; yeah a righteous man and he will add to his learning.

Proverbs 9:7-9