Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Start Time: 7:00 AM

End Time: 7:33 AM

Title: Madame Whore Calls Out, Too

Scriptures: Proverbs 9:13 - 18

God’s Message/Promise/Commands:

Solomon warns us today that if wisdom calls out for us, welcoming us with a dinner feast, Solomon says "Madame whore" calls out to you too.  She is empty-headed, frivolous; she sits on the front porch of her house, then as people walk by, she lures them in to have a good time instead of finding answers and clarifications to their confusion.  Her logic says, no one will know what you did, the important thing is you had the best time of your life.  Do what makes you happy.  The main goal is to satisfy the human desires temporarily.  In our journey in life, as we seek God continually each day and His wisdom, know that Madame whore is also in the way trying her very best to steal us away from our destination.  Her weapon against us is our own human desires!  That's what she uses against us!  To show us what it is to satisfy our flesh, hiding the truth from us that this satisfaction is only fleeting and will not last or fill our soul...so we end up just longing for more and more, seeking to satisfy our flesh in the wrong places, when the truth is all we need to satisfy or answer is the confusion we had that only Wisdom from God could have clarified.  So be careful of our own selfish desires because it is what will bring us down.

Prayer:

Lord Jesus, thank You for a wonderful lesson today.  Thank You because You have shown me that in my journey on earth towards the truth (You), there will be distractions.  The Devil will find ways to lure me out of focus to my goal...but the more important lesson I learned today is that I am to be careful more to my own selfish desires because this is the Devil's powerful weapon against me.  Help me Lord to have discipline and control over my flesh.  Give me wisdom to be able to run away from temptation and into Your arms to rest and be safe.  In Jesus' Name, Amen!

Memory Verse Share for today:

Proverbs 9:13 - 18 (The message version)

"Then there’s this other woman, Madame Whore—brazen, empty-headed, frivolous; She sits on the front porch of her house on Main Street, And as people walk by minding their own business, calls out, “Are you confused about life, don’t know what’s going on? Steal off with me, I’ll show you a good time! No one will ever know—I’ll give you the time of your life.” But they don’t know about all the skeletons in her closet that all her guests end up in hell."

King Solomon warns us that in our journey in seeking the truth (God's wisdom), there will be distractions along the way.  And the other woman (Madame whore or sin), her greatest weapon against us, is our own selfish desires that distract us from our pursuit of God's wisdom.  So we end up, temporarily happy but still confuse and with no answers.  So today, let's seek God's wisdom each day and not allow our own selfish desires to distract us from our journey.

Have a blessed day!