Proverbs 5:20: “For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, / And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?”

June 9th, 2024 by Pastor Ed in devotional

The son of King David, King Solomon, wrote the majority of Proverbs. And in Proverbs 5, Solomon addressed his own son about sexual immorality. He asked “why should you . . . be enraptured by an immoral woman” because he wanted to underscore that there is nothing to be gained by giving in to the temptation of sex outside of marriage and everything to be lost. Solomon’s wisdom speaks clearly of the foolishness of what we in our day politely call “an affair.”

A few years ago, a guy whose second wife had just left him for another man approached me. He was broken and weeping over his loss but confessed that he had done the very same thing to his first wife. In other words, he had ruined his first marriage by having an adulterous affair and then marrying the woman with whom he had the affair. He admitted that it had never occurred to him that the woman he was marrying had sought out an affair with him. In the words of Solomon, this man’s second wife was an immoral seductress, an adulterous woman. Why did he not expect her to eventually do the same to him?

Of course from the outside, we can clearly see that sin blinds the people involved in it to truth and reality. When this man became unfaithful, he blinded himself, which is why he was so astounded when he eventually reaped what he sowed. Hell is of course delighted over another family destroyed, 2 more homes wrecked, and several children disillusioned and confused. What is even more amazing is to watch, now a few years later, as this seductress again looks for someone new, because she’s decided her current husband is getting bald and expanding around the middle.

“LORD, keep us from blinding sin this day, as we seek to serve You with all our hearts.”