Proverbs 8:25 Commentary and Bible Study

We move from profound things to things that are stable, the mountains and the outlines of the hills. There are things in this earth that are stable, almost unchangeable. The mountain was just a huge impregnable, unbeatable thing that soared above humanity almost into the skies. Generations pass, and the child learns to admire the same outlines of the great granite mountains that long dead ancestors in the past were once in awe of. So, there are unchanging things. But when you look at the unchanging things in this world, there is something that goes back beyond them, older than them all, something that is even more unchanging, and that is the truth of God. God's truth is unchanging. God's truth never varies; it never needs updating; it cannot be improved. Human knowledge varies all the time, forever shifting, forever being altered and adapted and swept away. But here is divine knowledge, never changing, the rules are still the same, the unchanging doctrines of God: the holiness of God, the sinfulness of human rebellion and sin, the need of a Saviour by atonement. And similarly divine wisdom can carry us up there. Mountain tops were beyond their reach, beyond their interest in some ways, towering above humanity. Well, with divine wisdom, with the gospel and the promises and the explanations of the word, we can soar up above common humanity. We can understand more than even our best secular teachers. We can see almost from an eagle’s viewpoint the world and understand it and think about it, and we can soar into realms of divine knowledge. So whether it was the mighty mountains, or the gentler hills, affording beauty and protection, wisdom which formed them understood the deep impression they would make on the human mind. Yet wisdom is higher than all these earthly illustrations, and they give us a picture of what it accomplishes for us when we lay hold of it in the spiritual realm.