Week 23 Proverbs 5
The last couple of days I’ve been thinking about what Solomon calls The Way. I have a picture of a fork in the road – a kind of 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 picture:
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 she doesn’t even know it.
If the woman was on a crooked path and could not care less – that I understand. 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? Maybe the woman was 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 to start with. Which makes even locating the Way-of-Life an uphill climb.
Note: quote from Proverbs 5:6 NLT.