Proverbs 6:23–25: For the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light; Reproofs of instruction are the way of life, to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a seductress. Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, nor let her allure you with her eyelids.
Insight
The warning again concerns the strange woman, the prostitute. It is that which can wreck the life of a young man more than anything else. The sex sins, the sins of adultery are the great sins of our day. No one can calculate the lives that have been absolutely wrecked and ruined because of them. Oh, how many marriages are broken up today because of them! Notice that the young man is not to lust after her beauty in his heart. Also notice how the young man is warned against her flattery, her beauty, her fluttering eyelids. The whole sinful thought begins down in the human heart. 1
Application
We have to continue to learn to: “Keep our heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life” (Prov. 4:23). It is time to cut ties with the sin that so easily entangles us and run the race that God has put before us. Cut those ties today. Cut them now! It is your choice to be set free or you will become mastered by sin, and not by Jesus.
Motivation
But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Matthew 5:28
Behind the light of every temptation will be the darkness of a hostage bound by sin. – TWEET IT
Prayer
Father, please guard my heart from the sway of this wicked world.
1. McGee, J. V. (1991). Thru the Bible commentary: Poetry (Proverbs) (electronic ed., Vol. 20, pp. 70–71). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
