I was truly disappointed in myself when I missed three/four days worth of posting. I had started out so strong and was getting a post day. However, I know better. With my schedule and really trying to make these blogs reader friendly, I need down time to allow for the creative juices to have a happy process.
The first evening when I read Proverbs 5, I thought to myself, "WHOA...Heavy grounds...I can't share my thoughts on this." But it didn't stop there! The next few days I found the topic/theme threading its way into these following chapters. I begin to pray and ask God, "How does this apply to me, God? There has to be something I can capture in these readings?"
There is something to be learned for me...and hopefully for you, too.
Proverbs 5, 6, and 7, bring up the ways of the Immoral Woman. Solomon wrote Proverbs along with Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon. He has a very distinct message in each book, but they also correspond to the different phases/times in his life: youth, mid-age, the old age...All of this to provide some history, but what is consistent in Solomon's writings is he is graphic and seldom holds back. You want a good sex bood--yes, I used the "s" word--read Song of Solomon; it could put you and your significant other in the mood: rekindle the flame! What was I supposed to be talking about???!!!
Oh, the immoral woman! In these three chapters, Solomon is pretty straight-forward in his description about these types of women. While there is the literal message for us to learn and heed, I am certain we could take this message to a broader and more contextual meaning for life.
Proverbs is a book that repeatedly stresses wisdom, knowledge and understanding. From a blog I came across in my studies of these chapters, a writer stated it well in asking us to substitue "wayward woman" for something like "sinful world". If you read through the ways of this woman, every one of us could find where we have individually or collectively fallen short in the eyes of God. From laziness to lustful thoughts, we are in a time where many morals and good manners have escaped the generation before us. It is sad; I see it daily. Sadly, though, in a second, third, and fourth read, I found myself feeling convicted due to knowing I am no better than the ho...Sin is sin.
Jesus actually does come face to face with a few immoral women throughout the Bible, and he does change them for the good. If he can take a nobody or scum of the earth person and give them a makeover, think of all the other things he can do!
In a society where it appears everything is a go, we need to remember that we have the power to model and facilitate the change. This comes through the power we get in our relationships with God.
Don't lose the faith...or your Christ-like ways!
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