☛ Probing Proverbs 6:26-29 For a prostitute will bring you to
poverty, but sleeping with another man’s wife will cost you your life. Can a
man scoop a flame into his lap and not have his clothes catch on fire? Can he
walk on hot coals and not blister his feet? So it is with the man who sleeps
with another man’s wife. He who embraces her will not go unpunished. ☚
Wisdom has been dealing the foolishness of sexual activity
outside of what God has ordained. One husband, one wife, experiencing each
other only. Now wisdom gets very specific of an action that will bring the
greatest consequences. Be sure any sexual activity that God has not blessed
will lead to a sad end…i.e. sex with a prostitute will rob a man of the richness
God had intended in sex. However, wisdom now warns of an act that will bring
the greatest fire into a man’s life. When a man takes the person that God gave
to someone else, he steps into an area where very little mercy will be shown.
It does not matter if she pursued him or even seduced him, when he comes
between a husband and the intimacy that husband had with his wife, the
adulterer invites a wrath that knows no rival. The picture painted is graphic.
When any one thinks they can play with fire and not get burned they have become
a very deceived person. A man that loves his wife will give his life for her
and even if the relationship has entered a difficult time, woe to the fool that
thinks his action is like any other. Bedding a single girl, even one much
younger, (not a child, I mean a 50 year old man and a 25 year old woman),
wrong…yes, regret…yes, most times for the young woman it is when she realizes
what she has done. The older man pays in different ways; the greatest is
self-deception…thinking that the fantasy he has is real. Usually she loves his
money, power or needs a father figure and the sex is just part of the cost.
Paying for sex…very wrong and will reap regret…but, he is not stealing someone
else’s spouse. If he is married, even though he is not leaving his family, he
is just fulfilling his sinful lust not caring what damage he does to his
relationship with God, his wife, his family, the prostitute or society.
However, when you enter another man’s domain and take the woman that is supposed
to be just for him, you ignite inside him a fire that will be shot right at
that foolish man. Why is this so?
Perhaps it is because in the sexual
relationship of marriage there is a sense this is from God and is the way it
was intended to be. Now an enemy of what we would count most precious has
broken in and destroyed that trust, that promise and the intimacy that belonged
to only that husband. So why does this happen so often? The enemy of God knows
that one of society’s greatest hopes for redemption is through the family.
Satan hates marriage and families. The tragedy is the adulterer does not
understand that they are nothing more than a pawn of the evil one.
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