Daily Reflections From Higher Things®

Today's Reading: Proverbs 9:1-10 Daily Lectionary: Proverbs 25:1-22; John 19:23-42 Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. (Proverbs 9:5) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. Lady Wisdom invites everyone to commune with her, to sit at her table and eat with her. She wants to correct and reprove us. She wants to give us instruction, the first lesson being the fear of the Lord. She promises blessing and life, warning us that the way of folly leads to death. Many Jewish rabbis identified wisdom with the Law. Indeed, the Law is good and wise. The Law instructs us, teaching us what it means to fear the Lord. The Law promises blessing and life...to those who obey. The apostles took the characteristics of Lady Wisdom and applied them to Jesus. For example, just as Proverbs claims that God created everything through wisdom (Proverbs 3:19), the apostles claim that God created everything through Jesus. According to the Gospel, Jesus gives an unconditional blessing and He is the only way to life. He do