Proverbs 8:27-31 says When the Lord established the heavens I was there, when the Lord marked out the vault over the face of the deep; when the skies above were made firm above, when the foundations of the earth were fixed fast and the sea set in its limit, so that the waters should not transgress; then was I beside the Lord, and I was the Lord’s delight day by day, playing before the Lord all the while, playing on the surface of his earth; and I found delight in the human race.
The writer here is speaking of wisdom, portraying her as a person who was always in the mind of God. But we too can identify with this image--the image of having been in the mind of God before the creation of the world. We were the delight of a Divine being, and such thoughts should fill us with profound peace and joy. For no matter how our lives twist and turn, the same God who held us in the Divine mind's eye, who found delight in imagining our creation, is with us still, with no less intensity of love and design.
God intends that we should "play before the Divinity" by trusting in providence, knowing our serious life needs the light hearted joy of confidence, so that we too may be as wisdom, beside her as a co-creator, assisting in creation and delighting the Divine day and night.
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