I Will

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
I WILL
Prov 7:1-5
My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you. 2 Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye. 3 Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call understanding your kinsman; 5 they will keep you from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words.
NIV
Here we go again, once more a warning about that adulteress, that wayward wife with her seductive words, that world. I have to conclude all these warnings are not about an actually women for Solomon in all his wisdom had way too many he married to be concerned about just one of another man’s. Now it is true he would have had an older brother had his father keep faith and not committed that sinful act. But this is not about women, for all scripture is for the good of all people and thus want kind of warning is this for women, but to not commit adultery with the world. This world, this result of mankind rejecting, divorcing itself from God, has become the wayward wife. God surely desires that all his creation should not perish but have everlasting life, yet many of his people have turned their back on him and engaged in the destructive behavior of self-gratification. Here, I am again reminded to be on guard against the world’s seductive words. Here again I am told to store up God commands within me, to keep them and that result will be life, life now and life everlasting. Those individuals who have been seduced by the world are nothing more than walking dead men. I used to sing “keep me Jesus as the apple of thine eye” but here I see his words are to be the apple of my eye, the desired fruit, the greatest thing to lust after. As I wear a ring, as I bind my finger with a gold band to signify my faithful devotion to my earthy wife, I bind my finger symbolically as a token of my faithful devotion to my God. His words are not written on the human flesh which is corruptible, but on a tablet in my heart, a tablet of stone, with the finger of God, never to be erased, or worn out. How clearer can this message be? How can God impress it upon me any stronger? I have to live according to his way, and not the way of this wayward world. Mankind has lost its way, gone off the deep end and set up all sorts of idols of worship, false idols, man invented idols that I dare not even start to make a list of for fear of offending any who read this. But I fear that even the most devote believer, if not ever so careful can be in danger here. I must be vigilant or I could be in danger. I am convinced God has bestowed this wisdom and understanding to me, and I see the danger, I am at least aware of this wayward world and attempt to stay clear of her seductive words. But I fear some of my fellow believers have been lured too close to her door. I have to be more vocal, more engaged in the calling God has placed on me. I will.