PROFITING FROM PROVERBS

“Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows" (Proverbs 7:12-14).

“She . . . lieth in wait at every corner,” so, she's more than just one woman. It has to apply more broadly than just one woman. One woman doesn't lie in wait at every corner. It has to have a more expansive corporate thing than that; so, it's acknowledging here that it has an application that's beyond just one little 120 pound gal that's full of the devil, right?

“So, she caught him,” well, he's in the wrong spot and should have ran. “So, she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face,” “impudence” means brazen, immodest, forward, or challenging. It’s the look you get on the fashion magazines at Walmart. That’s the impudent look, the “come hither look.”

“So, she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him . . .,” that's the opposite of the meek and quiet spirit of the godly woman that Peter describes or the “shamefacedness” of first Timothy: “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array" (1 Timothy 2:9).

Verse 14, “I have peace offerings with me,” this gal is religious. If you think that holding up a cross and throwing holy water around is going to run her off, you’ve got another thing coming. She's perfectly comfortable around religion. she's 100% comfortable around crosses and holy water and just about anything else you want to bring out. She says, “I have peace offerings with me.”

Daily Bible study is necessary if we are going to begin our day with the right attitude and the right spiritual diet. Proverbs has 31 chapters, and most months have 31 days, so let's read a chapter of Proverbs a day and see what God might have for us. As the Lord leads, share with us what God has shown you in a special way and by His grace let us build up a devotional repository. Let's keep our knives and forks handy for some daily bread! Ideally, a chapter or two of Proverbs will fit in nicely with a good plan of reading our Bibles through each year.

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