Saved Me

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
SAVED ME
Prov 2:16-19
16 It will save you also from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words, 17 who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God. 18 For her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead. 19 None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.
NIV
Is this truly all about a woman of the night? I think not, for the story line is actually speaking about a whole generation of adulteress people. A generation of people who were created by God for God but have turned they back on him and have engaged in an affair with idolatry. They have turned to worship the things of the world. The lure of fine things, gold, success, fame, and self-gratification have and the like have drawn them away from their first love. The dark lord uses such seductive words and ways to steal away souls from the partner of their youth. I cannot allow those words to have an influence on my being; I resist the sweet sounding lies of the world and her lord. I cannot understand how a person could forfeit eternal life, and all the glories and splendor which awaits in the everlasting presence of God, including eternal peace and joy, for the temporal pleasures of this seductive temptress, whose real identity is hidden to many, but I know him as the devil, Satan, the dark lord of the world. I but only have to read the end of the big book to know this statement is true about those who follow after this adulteress, this evil one. They will be thrown into the lake of sulfur and perish. How foolish to think the pleasures of the world are worth all that. How foolish to think one can indulge in passionate intercourse with the world and escape the end result, the truly deadly disease of which only one cure exists. The cure, of course, is repenting, turning away from this illicit affair and turn to Jesus. There can be no relationship, no going to the temple and engaging in prostitution when a person is the bride of Christ. That is the picture I see. I am the bride of Christ and I cannot be having an affair with the world. I cannot desire her, or the pleasures she offers me. My Lord has all I need. Although he does provide me with all the material goods I would need, and even some of the pleasures within the physical realm of this world, I am not in relationship with them, nor worship them. They are merely the blessings given to me by my Lord, who knows I need to have them in order to live in the lifestyle he has chosen for me, so I may serve him within the segment of society he has directed me to. They are but tools to serve me in my efforts to further the Kingdom of God. I shall not leave my Lord, to follow after the path of the dark lord and his disguise as the temptress of pleasure. Wisdom has shown me the truth. It has saved me.