The delight of the pre-existent Christ in the Godhead

Is the wisdom of proverbs 8 Jesus?

Objection 1 verse 22 shows that wisdom was the work of the lord suggesting it was created therefore Christ would have been created? But Wayne Grudem writes that the word does not actually mean created but means “to get or acquire” he goes on to suggest it could mean “the father began to direct and make use of the powerful creative work of the son in the creation of the universe”.

Objection 2 surely the wisdom is surely simply an attribute of God? But even in the new testament Jesus has been made unto us the wisdom of God. Or in other words Jesus is made wisdom, wisdom is a person as well as an attribute or quality.

So I would argue that the wisdom of proverbs 8 is Jesus. So we see in verse 30 that as John Flavel writes that “The condition and state of Jesus Christ before his incarnation, was a state of the highest and most unspeakable delight and pleasure, in the enjoyment of God.”

In this verse we have how Christ viewed his role, he was a craftsman one who has skill and design in making things. So it is with Christ he was the creator of the world he made all things with intricate care and creativity. The nature of delight was that it filled him, every part of him was full of pleasure. It also happened on a continuous process day after day. The place of his pleasure was the presence of God that always caused Christ continual delight.

“These delights of the father and the Son one in another, knew not a moment’s interruption, or diminution: thus did these great and glorious persons mutually let forth their fullest pleasure and delight, each into the heart of the other, they lay as it were embosomed one in another, entertaining themselves with delights and pleasures ineffable and unconceivable.” John Flavel

Christ knew before time as he was in his active relationship with God a fullness of joy in Gods presence as psalm 16v11 speaks. What condescension was this to leave such inexpressible delights of God to become man a die a death of such pain for those who had only rejected him.