Proverbs 5:3-5
3 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, 4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death her steps follow the path to Sheol;
If an enemy were going to poison me, where would he hide the poison? If he put it in many healthy foods, I’d continue a long, happy life. But if he hid it in the kettle corn, or the Ruby Snap cookies, I’d be dead in 5 minutes time. The sweet can hide the bitter. Our enemy knows this very well.
Temptation doesn’t have to be sexual to fit into the verses above. Anything God warns us against will be used by the enemy to entice us down to death. Sin is always going to be honey on top and death underneath. Look away from these false pleasures, these poison injected cookies, to the life that we find in Christ. He too stands with open arms, ready to embrace you as friend, son, and co-heir to God’s pleasures forever more.
Prayer prompt: Lord, help me to see through the bait to the hook and hate sin so that I may much more love the good pleasures you give.
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