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That is, from a woman not my own
Reading:

Proverbs 7:1-5

She seems to be everywhere, the strange woman does.

No, not the weird or odd or off-the-wall woman. No, not that kind of strange.

I used to understand her to be strange in a contrary-to-godly sort of way. I haven’t discarded that understanding. I have added to it, based on the wording in my Spanish Bible — mujer ajena. A woman not my own.

She seems to be everywhere.

I saw two of her in a magazine this morning already. A homeschooling magazine. A Christian homeschooling magazine.

Alas, as Christian women, I’m sure neither one imagined a Christian man somewhere putting her in the Strange Woman category.

So…what did I read in Proverbs 7 that provoked that train of thought?!

“That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words” (Proverbs 7:5).

Now tell me, who are the they that will do that kind of keeping?

[The Scriptures say in Proverbs 7:2 -- Keep my commandments, and live]
from Proverbs 7:2

Reading:

Proverbs 5:15-18; 6:23-35

Whether or not I want to safeguard my own moral purity, God wants me to.

So He provides me with instructions and commandments designed to keep me away from any woman not my wife.

“Drink waters out of thine own cistern” (Proverbs 5:15). If she isn’t mine, I shouldn’t take from her any satisfaction of any sexual need or desire.

“Rejoice with the wife of thy youth” (Proverbs 5:18). If she isn’t my wife, she isn’t mine to enjoy in any sensual way.

“For the commandment is a lamp…To keep thee from…a strange woman” (Proverbs 6:23,24). When I focus on and live by God’s ways and instructions, no other woman will draw me away from my wife.

“Lust not after her beauty in thine heart” (Proverbs 6:25). Just because she is attractive in body or character is no reason to desire her for myself.

“But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul” (Proverbs 6:32). No pleasure and no person is worth that price!

[The Scriptures say in Proverbs 6:23 -- To keep thee...from the flattery of the tongue of a strange....]

from Proverbs 6:23

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