{"id":4659,"date":"2026-06-08T10:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=4659"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:59:13","slug":"before-god-began-a-single-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/before-god-began-a-single-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Before God began a single thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Proverbs 8:22 KJV \u2014 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before God created a single thing, He had wisdom and understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wisdom and understanding predate all of creation. They are the fount from which all of God&#8217;s works spring forth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everything He did and does is founded on His wisdom and His understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God possessed them, and He was one with them, because wisdom and understanding are Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus, the Word made flesh (John 1:1),&nbsp; is wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:30).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To have wisdom and understanding is the byproduct of spending time being intimate with God&#8217;s Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 8:22 KJV \u2014 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. Before God created a single thing, He had wisdom and understanding. Wisdom and understanding predate all of creation. They are the fount from which all of God&#8217;s works spring forth. Everything He did and does is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/before-god-began-a-single-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Before God began a single thing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6594,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions\/6594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}