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Proverbs Chapter Five
December 24, 2016

Last week we continued a study on the Book of Proverbs and read in chapter four the importance of embracing wisdom and how wisdom will bring you glory. In chapter five, the discussion on wisdom is expanded and is contrasted to a vile person who is never satisfied. Those who have wisdom are careful with the words they choose to use. They are careful to avoid people who lack discretion.

Proverbs 5:1-6
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

When a person avoids people who lack discretion, they preserve their integrity, and in the end are able to enjoy what they have worked hard to earn. When the path of wisdom is chosen when we come to the end of our natural life, we can take comfort knowing we did our best trying to live a morally upright life.

Proverbs 5:7-14
Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

One strategy to maintain discretion and integrity is to be satisfied with what we have. The more we want what others have, the more likely we will want to be like other people. Instead of wanting what others have, we should share what we have been given. Our lives should be rivers of living water that touch the lives of others. When we commit to marriage, that commitment needs to be for life. As we mature in our relationship with God, we need to maintain that relationship. The greatest mistake we could make would be to abandon our relationship with God before death.

Proverbs 5:15-23
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

Maintaining discretion is the first step our journey in developing a relationship with God.

All verses are from the King James Version.
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