God’s Gift

Proverbs 7 opens:

My son, keep my words, And treasure my commands within you. Keep my commands and live, And my law as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” And call understanding your nearest kin, That they may keep you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words. (Proverbs 7.1 – 5, NKJV)

Then it goes into detail about how the immoral woman works.

For at the window of my house I looked through my lattice, And saw among the simple, I perceived among the youths, A young man devoid of understanding, Passing along the street near her corner; And he took the path to her house In the twilight, in the evening, In the black and dark night, and there a woman met him… (Proverbs 7.6 – 10, NKJV)

You see where this is going…

So she caught him and kissed him; With an impudent face she said to him: “I have peace offerings with me; Today I have paid my vows. So I came out to meet you, Diligently to seek your face, And I have found you. I have spread my bed with tapestry, Colored coverings of Egyptian linen. I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until morning… (Proverbs 7.13 – 18, NKJV)

And how it ends…

…Immediately he went after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter…He did not know it would cost his life. (Proverbs 7.22, 23, NKJV, emphasis mine)

Chilling.

The solution is clear, as outlined here in chapter 7 as well as Proverbs, chapter 5:

  1. Keep my commands and live. (Proverbs 5.2, NKJV – see the entire introduction above)
  2. Drink water from your own cistern, And running water from your own well. Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets? Let them be only your own, And not for strangers with you. Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice with the wife of your youth. As a loving deer and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; And always be enraptured with her love. (Proverbs 5.15 – 19, NKJV)

God didn’t say, “NO. You can’t have sex. Naughty.” What God said was, “You can have all the sex you want…with your own spouse.” What a blessing!

I don’t write this stuff…I just report it.

…let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband…Do not deprive one another… (1 Corinthians 7.2, 3, 5, NKJV)

Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. (Hebrews 13.4, NKJV)

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