Proverbs Week:
David, and his son Solomon, had a very big weakness. The lust of their eyes for women. However, this blog is just not to warn men because many women lust after men. This is an all-inclusive blog this week.
This proverb should give you wisdom when it comes to the opposite sex and how we should deal with the lust of our eyes. Especially when married.
Without posting the actual verbiage of these verses, here are a few regarding what the bible says about the lust of our eyes.
1 John 2:16
Matthew 5:28-29
Proverbs 27:20
Proverbs 6:25
Job 31:3
Let’s dive in and see what nuggets of wisdom are in Proverbs chapter 5.
An adulteress is a powerful tool used to distract men. She can and will distract, harm, and yes, even kill you, if you do not have wisdom. She will pull you into her web of deceitful sexual sin. For some, you are freed from her snare once you repent. Others, you won't make it out. The key to the first six verses is wisdom. Notice the very first sentence.
My son, pay attention to my wisdom;
listen closely to my understanding
so that you may maintain discretion
and your lips safeguard knowledge.
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey
and her words are smoother than oil,
in the end she’s as bitter as wormwood*
*this word is also mentioned in the book of Revelation (8:10-11)
when they drank the water and it was bitter. Like wormwood*
and as sharp as a double-edged sword.
Her feet go down to death;
her steps head straight for Sheol.
She doesn’t consider the path of life;
she doesn’t know that her ways are unstable.
You may ask, Kym, why even post this. I speak as someone who was an adulteress. I slept with married men and knew exactly how to entice the lust of their eyes. God wants you to understand this:
Sexual sin against your marriage bed, is a marriage bed defiled.
I do not say these things for you to snub your nose or look down upon me. I say these things because defilement of the marital bed is poison. I was poison for many years.
So now, sons, listen to me,
and don’t turn away from the words from my mouth.
Keep your way far from her.
Don’t go near the door of her house.
Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others
and your years to someone cruel;
strangers will drain your resources,
and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house.
At the end of your life, you will lament
when your physical body has been consumed,
and you will say, “How I hated discipline,
and how my heart despised correction.
I didn’t obey my teachers
or listen closely to my instructors.
I am on the verge of complete ruin
before the entire community.
Notice the keywords highlighted above. A lack of wisdom led them here!!
Drink water from your own cistern,
water flowing from your own well.
Should your springs flow in the streets,
streams in the public squares?
They should be for you alone
and not for you to share with strangers.
Let your fountain be blessed,
and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.
A loving deer, a graceful doe
let her breasts always satisfy you;
be lost in her love forever.
I love how God knows exactly why He created our bodies in the way He did and why they respond the way they do when touched as they should on our marriage beds with our spouses.
When used as God intended, our bodies should be a pure enticement to our husbands and wives. If your spouse does not entice you in those ways, perhaps this blog is for you today.
These next few verses I trust will help you!
Why, my son, would you lose yourself
with a forbidden woman
or embrace a wayward woman?
For a man’s ways are before the Lord’s eyes,
and he considers all his paths.
A wicked man’s iniquities will trap him;
he will become tangled in the ropes of his own sin.
He will die because there is no discipline,
and be lost because of his great stupidity.
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