NOTES for Wis 6:12-16

A bright and joyful Old Testament text is read today. It sometimes seems to us that wisdom is something unattainable. But today the Wise One says that it is easy to contemplate her, that she herself finds those who want to know her, that she herself comes to the one who seeks her. The only condition is simple: to love wisdom and to want to acquire her.

So what is this wisdom that herself finds the seekers? Intellect? Knowledge? Experience? No. Wisdom is first and foremost a gift of God, and that is exactly why she is acquired not by efforts, but by His grace. To seek wisdom is the same as to seek God, Who Himself goes out to meet the seeker.