Only One Voice

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
ONLY ONE VOICE
Prov 5:1-6
My son, pay attention to my wisdom, listen well to my words of insight, 2 that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge. 3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; 4 but in the end she is bitter as gall, sharp as a double-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave. 6 She gives no thought to the way of life; her paths are crooked, but she knows it not.
NIV

I think this is becoming a little repetitive about paying attention, but then maybe God needs to make sure I am listening one hundred percent to him and zero percent to either the world or myself. Pay attention and listen well is the theme of God. I don’t know why I should question that, after all he is far wiser than I will ever be. So by paying attention to his insight, his wisdom, I can maintain discretion, a plan to live according to his word and I can proclaim his words, his plan for mankind, for as I think so am I, and what is in my heart comes out of my mouth. Yet it appears it is possible to be an adulteress. It appears it is possible to say I love the lord, proclaim I am his bride, proclaim his word and have an affair with the world. Perhaps it is also the world, or others are that adulterers attempting to flirt with me, to engage me into playing around with their ideas of Christianity, their doctrine, their rules and regulations, their denominational self-righteousness and petty bickering about who is right and who is wrong. In either case I am not to pay any attention to them, to the world or to my own self. I need to stay focused on the wisdom of God. I need to keep my own self within the framework of his word. I need to take my stand for the truth proclaimed straight forward by God himself. This entire dribble the world has to say has nothing to offer but death and I mean death, the grave. That is the place of no resurrection, but the final place of destruction. Why would I ever what to pay any attention to the wisdom of this world? Why would I what to devise my plan for life based on that dribble? I think it is way too easy for a believer to get sucked into making plans for life based on the standards or patterns devised by other men, then on the standards and patterns of God. I might have been distracted myself at times, but I cannot allow that to happen, I have to stay focused on the plan laid out by my God. I think the key here is there can be only one voice I must listen well to and that is God’s.