I was listening to Proverbs 7 this morning.
My son, keep my words, and lay up My commandments with thee.
Keep My commandments, and live; and My law as the apple of thine eye.
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. Proverbs 7:1-3
Write them upon the table of thine heart.
That is a way to love Gods word, to love the truth, to love His commandments.
On the surface, proverbs 7 is about an adulterous woman.
When you think about God’s word, He has said many times people go a whoring after their other gods.
He likened the Israelites wanting their wonderful delicacies in Egypt as lust.
So the idea that an adulterous woman might be symbolical of temptation of the flesh in many forms of sin,
or even the temptation of deception .
The kind of deception that itches ears, that satisfies earthly mortal thoughts that are against God.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;
but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 2 Timothy 4:3-4
The adulterous woman who lures you into her trap might not be a woman.
She might symbolize something much larger than we can imagine.
Temptation is real and it is seducing us all the time to stray from God and His ways.
Be solid with God’s word. Be solid with Jesus and always keep His word above your own thoughts.
Watch for those things that are hidden on the surface.