The Bible, especially the book of Proverbs and the Apocryphal, 'Book of Wisdom' both talk about Wisdom as an anthropomorphic personification, in other words, they address wisdom as a person, a woman. Many believe that she is the Holy Spirit so those that say 'God is a woman' may NOT be totally wrong. Is the 3rd person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, a female element of God?

"For she is a breath of the power of God,
and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty;
therefore nothing defiled gains entrance into her." - Wisdom 7:25

Is the Holy Spirit 'Wisdom' or is wisdom a separate Spirit again? I am not a theologian and I don't know! We have to be careful here because we could move into that realm of almost making God more than one entity, and seeing wisdom as a goddess like the greeks did. I don't think God would appreciate that and it would be a mistake!

People often personify inanimate objects (e.g. men often name their cars and boats/ships after women) but the best known anthropomorphic personifications are for abstract concepts, Lady Luck, justice and wisdom, are all depicted as women balanced by the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse. Why? They are all complex, intricate and complicated abstract concepts, that affect our lives in some way and I think it helps to make them not quite so overwhelming. After all God himself understood that to connect and communicate with us he had to take on a human voice/form and come down to our level because we couldn't come up to His.

In our reading today we read about the nature of wisdom as if a person! But to be truly balanced there is one more female personification - 'wickedness'. In the book of proverbs, Solomon talks about the 2 women, giving a father's advice, the Lady Wisdom and the Tramp. In the very first chapter Solomon writes of the woman, 'Wisdom' calling in the streets, she issues an invitation that all should accept. She invites the simple and those who lack understanding vs the proud/educated (Pro 9:4-6), she does not invite scoffers. But hers is not the only invitation, the other invitation is from the 'woman of wickedness'. Whose invitation are you going to accept 'The call of the wild' or the 'The call of the wise'?

I know all too well that we are living in the end times and as in the days of Noah, that the world is filled with those that have followed the 'call of wickedness'. So we need Lady Wisdom more than ever. With the greater rise of A1 generated pictures etc, We all need a greater level of discernment to recognise truth from fake news and clickbait, and to know when we are being cat-fished or even gaslighted. Wickedness is so deceptive because it creeps in so easily and at first it doesn't seem bad, evil or corrupting at all. Often sin comes disguised as humanism, as something that seems right. It can reach the point where what is good is depicted as evil and bad seems good. So ask God for Wisdom, understanding, and discernment, these are things he wants you to seek from Him.