Proverbs - Whose Voice Are You Listening To?

Proverbs 5:3-13

 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb,

 and her mouth is smoother than oil:

 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable,

that thou canst not know them.

  Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,

nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

                    A strange woman here is referring to someone you and I are not to be bonded with.  Our marriage relationship is with the Lamb of God and His Lordship in our lives.  When we listen to other voices that try to woo us into investing our time and obedience to them, we end up with a bitter end and our honor is given to others.

                    These ‘voices’ are smooth and sometimes we don’t even recognize we are being courted by some sin or worthless pursuit until we wake up and realize that we hated instruction and despised reproof.

                    We must rather listen to the Lord’s words and remove ourselves from these paths.  We must not ponder the paths that our Lord has not asked us to travel.  These paths are always so unsteady and the rules are always changing.  Let us love instruction and receive reproof.