Wisdom Is Not Hiding Rather She Calls Out. Are Your Listening?
Proverbs 8:1–4, 22–31
“Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice?
On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand;
beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries out:
‘To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all that live.'”
I’m not saying you have to try hard to be stupid—but you don’t have to try that hard to be wise either. Honestly, just deciding not to be stupid might get you 95% of the way there.
This passage from Proverbs paints a compelling picture: wisdom isn’t tucked away in a cave for only the enlightened to discover. She’s loud. She’s public. She’s showing up at the crossroads, at the gates, in the thick of human life—calling out to all who will listen.
We don’t have to scale a mountain or decode secret scrolls to find wisdom. We just have to pay attention.
Wisdom’s Origin Story
“The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of long ago.
Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.”
Wisdom was there before dirt. Before oceans. Before mountains. If Genesis gives us the “what” of creation, Proverbs 8 gives us the “how.”
Wisdom is the framework—God’s original SOPs. She was God’s project manager. The master worker. The logic and love behind the laws of nature and morality.
She’s not divine, but she’s divine-adjacent. She’s not God, but she’s inseparable from the way God made things to work. Do you hear wisdom call?
Wisdom’s Call Isn’t Elusive—We Are
If wisdom is everywhere and calling out to everyone, why do we miss it so often?
I think it’s because we confuse other things for wisdom. Intelligence. Success. Authority. Image.
But wisdom’s fruit is different:
- Generosity, not greed
- Gentleness, not domination
- Self-control, not impulsiveness
- Kindness, not cruelty
- Wonder, not cynicism
When we embrace violence, vanity, and exploitation, we’re not being clever—we’re rejecting wisdom.
Everyone Gets a Shot
“My cry is to all that live.”
Wisdom is not an exclusive club. She doesn’t care if you have a degree, if you’re rich or poor, if you meditate for hours or barely make it through the day. She’s available to all that live. Wisdom calls out to all.
And that includes people we often overlook—those who don’t look “wise” by our standards. We expect gurus, professors, or polished success stories. But sometimes wisdom is tucked inside the quiet worker, the child asking honest questions, or the neighbor who knows how to listen.
A Delightful Conclusion
“Then I was beside him, like a master worker;
and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always,
rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race.”
That last line gets me every time.
Wisdom delights in humanity. She rejoices in creation. She’s not cynical or detached. She’s joyful. She’s enchanted with the world.
Which makes me think—maybe true wisdom isn’t just about having the right answers. Maybe it’s about never losing your delight in the world. Seeing it not with disillusioned eyes but with awe and gratitude.
Maybe the most mature thing we can do is keep a childlike wonder alive—especially in a world that often feels dark and broken.
Final Thought:
You don’t have to be perfect to be wise. But you do have to listen. Wisdom is calling. From the gates. From the crossroads. From the rhythm of the world itself. All you have to do… is respond.