Rejecting Wisdom
When someone calls to you, or stretches out his hand to you, these are both offers for help. Help is usually offered to you when you are in trouble or in need. In the verses surrounding Proverbs 1:24, the Wisdom of God is personified. And in verse 24, the listener is accused of rejecting Wisdom. Rejection happens when you judge something, and deem it to be not good enough.
What is the ultimate Wisdom of God? The ultimate knowledge? It is the salvation that only comes from God, through the person of Jesus Christ. To the unbeliever, this is a dire warning. Have you weighed God against your own thinking and then judged Him and His plan for salvation “not good enough?” If you have had the privilege of having God call to you and stretch out His hand to you with an offer of salvation, will you finally take the gift that He offers? Will you study, search, pray, repent, and ask God to answer your questions so that you can find peace, rest, and eternal life in the person of Jesus? Reading on, when you judge God, you will eventually find yourself judged, and will indeed receive whatever you valued as “good enough” for your faith and belief.
And to the believer, this is also a warning. If the Holy Spirit calls to you to change your heart or your lifestyle, will you heed Wisdom or reject His choices for you and rely on your own? If the Spirit reaches out to take you on God’s adventure for your life, will you take His hand, or laugh, like Abraham’s wife, Sarah, and scoff at God? God promises that while believers will not suffer His wrath, we will be judged and rewarded for our actions in this life. When we, as believers, judge God’s ways as “not good enough” and choose the rewards of this life, then we risk that those will be the only rewards we receive.
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