Proverbs 9 - Wisdom Cries Out From the Highest
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The proverb starts off by stating that Wisdom has slaughtered her meat and mixed her wine. What is the meat or blood if they are not the very body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ? Who has prepared for us a meal of love, that we may enter into the eternal heavenly Kingdom with Him. Fr. Mina emphasizes that those who await their entrance into eternity in order to experience heaven, waste their effort because truly heaven is already within us. Wisdom cries out from the highest, inviting all to dine with her, while saying that the awareness of the Lord’s presence is the beginning of wisdom. Foolishness, adversely, uses the same words wisdom does to invite people over, but while mislabeling things in order to seduce its hearers. All sin can provide is a false reality that stems from lusts and desires that do not exist.
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