Law is the Expression of Character

This is a thought that makes sense of some things I am seeing at the moment. I would apply this proposition to both the natural and judicial ways in which we use the word "law." "Natural Law," referring to the ways that we humans describe the consistency of the way we observe our world to work, and "Judicial Law," referring to the ways that we humans decide what consistent results will follow an action.

When something is consistently occurring, it is because someone is choosing consistently.

That might sound like a stretch with how we think about natural laws (that would be a fun discussion), but I'm mostly intrigued now with how we think about things like Wisdom and Truth.

Think about how we use the word "wisdom." If someone is wise, or if someone chooses wisely for example. What do we mean? We mean something like "a type of choice" or "a way of choosing" that is wise. Perhaps both based upon the way something is done and that things that result. Jesus is quoted by Matthew of saying "...wisdom is justified of her children." (KJV) "...wisdom is vindicated by her deeds." (NAS) That speaks to how someone might know that something is wise because of what results. The author of the book of Proverbs has much to say about "wisdom" and often personifies it. I'm not trying to be romantic, I actually think that it might be more accurate to model these concepts as expressions of someone's character. The mind bender here comes into play when we are considering what effects the mind of God have on matter, energy, and time. If John is right in saying, "and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being." (-John 1:3) regarding the person Jesus ("the Word became flesh" -John 1:14), then it can't be all that much of a stretch to think about those things [matter, energy, and time] as maintaining some connection to that someone who created them.

This would probably take a while to unpack, but I think what I'd like to put on the table for chewing on is that: when someone "follows wisdom," they are actually acting in accordance with someone else's character - someone who defines and dictates what is "wise."