Week 23 Proverbs 5
The last couple of days I’ve been thinking about what Solomon calls The Way. I picture a fork in the road – or maybe a highway on-ramp – where I get to choose. Do I choose the Way-of-Life? Or the Way-of-Death?
So anyway in chapter five Solomon talks about a woman who’s trying to sexually seduce a young guy and what Solomon says about her makes me rethink my fork-in-the-road idea:
a) she gives no thought to the way of life
b) her paths are crooked
c) but she knows it not.
The woman isn’t concerned about the Way-of-Life. She’s already on the Way-of-Death . I get that. But the surprising thing is that it looks like she doesn’t even know it.
If the woman decided to take the crooked path and knew it and couldn’t care less – that would be one thing. But the thing is: she knows it not – doesn’t seem to have any conception of her predicament. I’d think that if she had stood at an intersection and thought and decided to go the Way-of-Death then she’d at least recall the decision. But it looks like she didn’t.
Which makes me wonder: was there no fork in the road? Was the woman on the Way-of-Death from the very beginning. Maybe she didn’t need to turn her back on The Way. Maybe it was turned from the start. Which makes even locating the Way-of-Life a worrying problem.
Note: quote from Proverbs 5:6 NLT