The Pursuit of Wisdom Brings Security

Proverbs 2; I die daily devotional.

¹⁶ To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words;

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STRANGE WOMAN

Lady Wisdom gets real; she likens the lurking lustful desires of our flesh hidden beneath the skin, to a strange woman who speaks its language by one behaving inappropriately toward men innocent of such activity.

However, she does promise to deliver us (men and women) from such vices if we’ll listen and accept the discipline.

There is not a man or woman that doesn’t experience this strange woman beneath their skin. She represents the core issue of Desire itself … Lust.

While the verse reveals the nature of lust with a scene that progressively concludes in the act of adultery, the root cause of this is where we need to go to find deliverance.

ADULTERESS

Imagine you’re a single male or female in your teenage years of adolescence experiencing the natural processes of procreation in your body, do you remember those feelings of desire that enlightened the mind to realize … I’m no longer a child, but a human being capable of producing children?

But there was a problem…

No one actually taught you what those feelings meant, so naturally, you engage in what the body is designed to do. And now that you’ve become accustomed to the pleasures meant for a marriage bed undefiled, you keep engaging in those pleasures all the while setting your conscience on fire; can you imagine someone telling you how that’s a sin against God if you hadn’t already heard it before without listening? Or can you imagine you had a step-father who was also a preacher that would teach the gospel all the while “teaching” what sexual intimacy is all about to his step-daughter and step-son?

Ohhhh… the flattery!

The adulterous who flatters poison of which persuades sons and daughters of God to disguise the truth about sin with pleasurable delights that seep down to Hell. A language of which the body signals want, “I want you!” Killing the soul to death over and over again unless … unless there is a rescue.

And there is!!!

Jesus Christ is where the power of our rescue is, and He’s proven it time and time again by testimonies around the world that have placed their faith in Him. God does honor the promises of His Word, and we can trust in His deliverance!

Wisdom delivers us from the strange woman and the adulterous who flatters with her words.

WE ARE SAVED!

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RESOURCE

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Proverbs 2 (NASB)—blueletterbible.org
¹ My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you, ² Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding; ³ For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding; ⁴ If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures; ⁵ Then you will discern the fear of the LORD And discover the knowledge of God. ⁶ For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come  knowledge and understanding. ⁷ He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity, ⁸ Guarding the paths of justice, And He preserves the way of His godly ones. ⁹ Then you will discern righteousness and justice And equity and every good course. ¹⁰ For wisdom will enter your heart And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; ¹¹ Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you, ¹² To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things; ¹³ From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness; ¹⁴ Who delight in doing evil And rejoice in the perversity of evil; ¹⁵ Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways; ¹⁶ To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words; ¹⁷ That leaves the companion of her youth And forgets the covenant of her God; ¹⁸ For her house sinks down to death And her tracks lead to the dead; ¹⁹ None who go to her return again, Nor do they reach the paths of life. ²⁰ So you will walk in the way of good men And keep to the paths of the righteous. ²¹ For the upright will live in the land And the blameless will remain in it; ²² But the wicked will be cut off from the land And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.

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COMMENTARY

Matthew Henry (P2-V16) Commentary
(2.) From women of corrupt practices. The former lead to spiritual wickednesses, the lusts of the unsanctified mind; these lead to fleshly lusts, which defile the body, that living temple, but withal war against the soul. The adulteress is here called the strange woman, because no man that has any wisdom or goodness in him will have any acquaintance with her; she is to be shunned by every Israelite as if she were a heathen, and a stranger to that sacred commonwealth. A strange woman indeed! utterly estranged from all principles of reason, virtue, and honour. It is a great mercy to be delivered from the allurements of the adulteress, considering,

• [1.] How false she is. Who will have any dealings with those that are made up of treachery? She is a strange woman; for,
  • First, She is false to him whom she entices. She speaks fair, tells him how much she admires him above any man, and what a kindness she has for him; but she flatters with her words; she has no true affection for him, nor any desire of his welfare, any more than Delilah had of Samson’s. All she designs is to pick his pocket and gratify a base lust of her own.
  • Secondly, She is false to her husband, and violates the sacred obligation she lies under to him. He was the guide of her youth; by marrying him she chose him to be so, and submitted herself to his guidance, with a promise to attend him only, and forsake all others. But she has forsaken him, and therefore it cannot be thought that she should be faithful to any one else; and whoever entertains her is partaker with her in her falsehood.
  • Thirdly, She is false to God himself: She forgets the covenant of her God, the marriage-covenant (v. 17), to which God is not only a witness, but a party, for, he having instituted the ordinance, both sides vow to him to be true to each other. It is not her husband only that she sins against, but her God, who will judge whoremongers and adulterers  because they despise the oath and break the covenant, Eze. 17:18;  Mal. 2:14.