"Love justice, you who rule over the world! Think rightly of GOD, seek HIM with simplicity of heart, for HE reveals HIMSELF to those who do not challenge HIM and is found by those who do not distrust HIM.
Crooked thinking distances you from GOD; and HIS Omnipotence, put to the test, confounds the foolish.
Wisdom does not enter the wicked nor remain in a body that is enslaved to sin. The Holy Spirit who instructs us shuns deceit; it keeps aloof from foolishness and is ill at ease when injustice is done.
Wisdom is a spirit, a friend to man, and will not leave the blasphemous unpunished, because GOD knows his innermost feelings, truly sees his thoughts and hears what he says.
For GOD's spirit has filled the whole world; and HE who holds together all things, knows each word that is spoken." - Wisdom 1:1-7
(GOD is more present to us than we are to ourselves. We need not look very far for authentic wisdom: it appears as spirit coming from GOD that becomes present to us interiorly but is only revealed to the just.
How can we express the nearness of the in-accessible and holy GOD? Here the author speaks of Providence, Wisdom, Justice, the Spirit of GOD. He speaks of them as if they were persons sent by GOD to look after us. In fact, it is a way of presenting GOD HIMSELF who, though HE preserves HIS mystery, is close to people and to events.)
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