Four things to do to pick up a woman.

☛ Probing Proverbs 7:6-8 While I was at the window of my house, looking through the curtain, I saw some naive young men, and one in particular who lacked common sense. He was crossing the street near the house of an immoral woman, strolling down the path by her house. ☚ 

As a sinner I need to pay special attention to scriptures that can give me insight into avoiding sin. This is one of those passages. Four important aspects are brought out here: “naive”, “common sense”, “near” and “strolling down the path”. Four things that will place you in the neighborhood of sexual sin. We are naive when we think that getting close to sin is not dangerous. Too many of us think that sin just happens. It does not! There are powers that are involved. Our flesh has a life of it’s own and will try to influence our decisions, and the invisible world of our enemy is always alert to opportunities to bring us into sin. We must not be naive, we must be alert like our enemy is alert! 

“Common” is the key when it comes to the sense we should have. This is nothing special, or only for “brainiacs”, the point is that it is “common”. Everyone knows that if you play with fire, there is a high risk of getting burned! If we would just use that common sense we would remember that 1+1=2, i.e. if I am a sinner, with a sin nature (that means a nature that loves to sin) if I get close to sin there is a greater chance for me to sin. DUH! No college degree needed...just think! 

The point of all the scripture’s warnings concerning sin is to stay far from it. Here is a formula that might help: take the “f” in far, replace the “n” in near with that “f” and that live that way – in other words “Fear to be near sin!” A “path” has as it’s objective to deliver the one on it to a specific destination. So even if you are not running, but only “strolling” you will end up in the same place. Why do we cautiously try to walk the path that leads to sin? Experimenting with how close we can get to it without getting caught. Nature has so many examples of creatures that, driven by curiosity, travel a path that makes them FOOD for the one waiting for them at the end of that path! In this case, the path promises pleasure, but in the end you become a meal for the enemy. Remain close to God and your heart will place a “dead end” sign in front of this path.