Proverbs 7

Yes, Suzanne, if these words were shared with David’s daughter, then it would be the wayward man who she would be warned against. And yet men have a greater tendency to be attracted by things of the eyes and senses than a woman and women actually tend to be more noble focusing more on relationship than physical pleasure. But neither gender is freed from the responsibility they have to help the other gender be pure and neither gender can absolve themselves from their responsibility to keep themselves pure independent of what the other does. We are all wise to guard our hearts against sexual temptation in any form especially in our time when it is so readily available and all under the guise of privacy. It is a trap filled with much destruction in mind, body, spirit and relationships. David certainly knows that from experience and seeks to protect his son from it. Unfortunately, Solomon ends up worse than his father. Yet the Bible gives us both positive role models to follow and negative role models to run in the opposite direction from….