- Let not your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths, for many a victim has she laid low, and all her slain are a mighty throng. Proverbs 7:25-26 – Once again Solomon is teaching about the foolishness of turning to the wayward ways of adultery. After sharing a story of witnessing a young man being allured into sexual immorality by an adulterous woman, Solomon closes out his warning by telling his son to not turn his heart towards her way and to not even walk down her path. He tells him to open his eyes and see all the victims that she has taken out, even the mighty have fallen by her hands. If such things happened to them, such will happen to you. Let us too be wise enough to consider our paths before turning down them. For if a path is filled with corpses, why would we expect to find life down that path? If a path has only offered its followers sorrow, why would we expect to find joy by going down it? Sinful paths have a long history of promising excitement, riches, blessings, and a satisfaction of all desires, but we can look back on the many lives who fell prey to such promises and see if they really received such things. Did they? No, as the last verse in this chapter even says, “her house is the way to Hell.” All that has ever been found down the path towards sin is pain, destruction, and death. Be wise then about the paths you take. If it is turning you away from the Lord and obedience to Him, then know it is a path that has already been taken by many before you and their corpses fill the ditches along the road as proof. Follow the path that leads you to the Lord, and the sure promise of life is what you will find. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2915
- And I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense, passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness. Proverbs 7:7-9 – It’s one thing to find yourself in a place where you weren’t expecting a temptation to come around, it’s a whole different story when you know that this temptation is going to be there and you pursue that path anyways. That’s what we have in our passage. This young man knowingly walks down the path to her house. How many times has that been you? Where you know what temptation is going to be at the end of that path yet you walk down it anyway. Be wiser than that. You know how that path ends for you, if not, read verses 22-23 of this chapter. Choose the path that will bring you healing not death. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 678
- Keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Proverbs 7:2-3 – How are you making it impossible for yourself to forget the word God has given to you? Here’s some ways I’ve used. Screenshot a Bible verse and make it the wallpaper on your phone. Have a routine time of meeting up with another believer to talk about your walk with. Choose daily to journal about what you read in scripture. Choose to say yes to adventures that may seem scary but you know are God led so you can find new opportunities to see God’s provision. The message of love God gives us truly is life to all and life to us. Let’s make sure we are doing all we can to keep it in front of us. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1689
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