Wisdom

From Proverbs 8 (ESV)

²² "The LORD possessed me at the beginning of his work,
   the first of his acts of old.
²³Ages ago I was set up,
   at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
²⁴When there were no depths I was brought forth,
   when there were no springs abounding with water.
²⁵Before the mountains had been shaped,
before the hills, I was brought forth,
²⁶before he had made the earth with its fields,
   or the first of the dust of the world.
²⁷When he established the heavens, I was there;
   when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
²⁸when he made firm the skies above,
   when he established the fountains of the deep,
²⁹when he assigned to the sea its limit,
   so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
³⁰then I was beside him, like a master workman,
and I was daily his delight,
   rejoicing before him always,
³¹ rejoicing in his inhabited world
   and delighting in the children of man.

And from John 1:1-5

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²He was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. ⁴ In him was life, and the life was the light of men. ⁵ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

It is hard to entertain new names for God.  And yet Wisdom is not exactly a new name.  My theology prof recommended reading these two passages together as a devotional reading.  So I did and as I read, I also read with the hope behind the words of Proverbs 8: 17  “I love those who love me,  and those who seek me diligently find me.”