St Timothy Presbyterian Church

Scripture Passage Proverbs 8:22-31 Worship Video Worship Audio Sermon Script Wisdom in the Darkness In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. (Genesis 1:1, 2) This is a familiar image we have about creation. Before God created the heavens and the earth, there was nothing but a formless void and darkness. Empty and dark: That was what was like before creation. But today's passage tells us something else. There was something else, something more than emptiness and darkness. There was wisdom. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. (Proverbs 8:23) This I' is the Wisdom. When you read the whole chapter, you will see that. There was wisdom right from the beginning before the creation of the world. Wisdom has been all along in this world. The world was created by this wisdom and therefore, the world is permeated with wisdom. So wisdom