Proverbs 7

After reading today, here is what stood out to me...

1. The author is still urging us to follow wisdom, to allow wisdom to guide us through life. In The Message it says "treat insight as a companion." Wisdom should be your best friend!

2. After reading about the lonely man, and the adulteress, I thought about how one might start an affair. I have never had one, so I could be way wrong here, but go with me...I am sure at the beginning everything seems innocent, you think, "oh just this one time," then it turns it something that happens more frequently, and then once you know it you are caught up in this huge mess, and you are entangled in all these lies. By not allowing wisdom to live in your heart you are making a mess for yourself too. You think oh this one time I am going to fix this problem, I will let God help me later, oh just this once I will go with this person even though they might not be the best influence for you, but you will only go once. Next thing you know you are making bad decision after bad decision. Not to say we all are never going to make mistakes, but it's a lot harder to make a mistake when you have wisdom on your side.

3. You know that song..."Highway to Hell"...well that's what you will be on if you allow the adulteress to live in your heart, keep singing that tune, and that's where you will end up.
"So, friends, listen to me, take these words of mine most seriously. Don't fool around with a woman like that; don't even stroll through her neighborhood. Countless victims come under her spell; she's the death of many a poor man. She runs a halfway house to hell, fits you out with a shroud and a coffin."

Keep storing up wisdom!
What do you think?
See you tomorrow...