Does not wisdom call,
and understanding lift up her voice?

Proverbs 8:1

Wisdom shouts in the streets,
she lifts her voice in the square
At the head of noisy streets she cries out; 
At the entrance of the gates
in the city she utters her sayings:

Proverbs 1:20

Throughout Proverbs wisdom is given the feminine pronouns of ‘her’ and ‘she’ and in the instances of these verses it reminds me of a mother instructing and teaching and doing her best by giving her all insuring her children not just survive, but thrive in their lives. We can just imagine her calling out to her young children in play, “Remember stay out of the street!” We see her lifting up her voice over the din of the TV and video games, “Time to turn those off and get to your homework.”

We know this mother’s words of guidance and advice shout into the hearts of her teenagers as they gather with their friends in the square and dance in the streets. She cries out in her prayers as these teenagers leap into adulthood and have their own families, that they will make smart job and business decisions, that they will live honest lives and serve others and not just think of themselves. 

All these, and many more, words of guidance and instruction have poured out of mothers ever since Eve bore Cain and Abel. It is intuitive in us moms, it is the nurturing quality of our being that wants to impart to our children every ounce of ourselves into our kids and grandkids. Could it be that this is the reason Solomon invokes the feminine pronouns when instructing his sons to embrace wisdom and knowledge and understanding? Could it be that God so wants us to live wholly within His unsearchable wisdom that the image of a nurturing mother to a child is the best picture He can paint on the canvas of our hearts and minds so that we finally “Get It”? 

I think there is validity to this and I pray that we will “Get It” as we envision God’s nurturing love for us as His children. As we hear Him to us in the noisy streets of this chaotic world, “Choose My wisdom! Live in My knowledge! Apply My understanding.”