The right family can keep you from sexual sin!

☛ Probing Proverbs 7:4-5 Love wisdom like a sister; make insight a beloved member of your family. Let them protect you from an affair with an immoral woman, from listening to the flattery of a promiscuous woman.☚ 

Wisdom and insight...meet the family! This is how we need to view these two characteristics in our daily life. Many people have knowledge and think that is sufficient, however knowledge is only the “data”. “Data” is essential; yet, it is not the complete picture. The Pharisees and scribes had all the “data” on the Messiah, yet when He was walking among them they did not recognize Him and they were the ones that turned Him over to the Romans to be crucified. All that “data” was a waste because without the tools of wisdom and insight we do not know how to use the “data” we possess. This is exactly why wisdom and insight can protect us from falling into sexual sin. 

Consider; we already possess the “data” the scriptures give us concerning sexual activity outside of marriage. We know that it will break our fellowship with God, bring judgment, leave scars and destroy lives. So when we add the “data” of an opportunity for an affair with an immoral woman or the “data” of flattery from a promiscuous woman, wisdom and insight processes all that “data” together. Look at the basic definitions of these two words – Wisdom: the ability to make sensible decisions and judgments based on personal knowledge and experience. Insight: the ability to see clearly and intuitively into the nature of a complex person, situation, or subject. In this case evaluate how it works. A man receives “data” from an immoral woman in the form of flattery, which tickles his ego. 

If he has wisdom and insight they put all that in the context of reality, i.e. sin against God, this woman, himself and perhaps two different families; a few moments of pleasure for, loss of integrity, purity; testimony; perhaps disease, blackmail, pregnancy and even abortion. These two characteristics are tools to bring reality to sensual and fleshy emotions.  If you keep them close, you will keep the immoral person far from you!