In our reading today we began with more warnings about the immoral woman … the woman we are to guard against leading us men into sexual sin. This is very noble advice and wise council from God. But I want to take it to another level and discuss sin in general.
Like the immoral woman described in
this chapter sin is seductive. If sin was not seductive we would not struggle with
it. We struggle with sin because it is pleasurable and it gives us some sort of
satisfaction in the moment. The same would be true for the brief sexual
interlude that the chapter talks about. If the woman was not seductive and
offering him a good time, he would not have stumbled into her bed. Friends, sin
is the same way. There is pleasure in sin. That is why we do it.
We must be on guard because the
pleasure of sin is often fleeting. There is pain and turmoil in giving your
heart sexually to anther for what amounts to a one night stand. Whether that is
the emptiness that follows or simply a sexually transmitted disease, the
consequences can be devastating. Sin feels good in the moment, but the after
can literally suck. So learn to not gratify the sinful desires that will only
provide momentary pleasure. Find comfort and strength in the arms of God that
last a lifetime. I will take the later, it sounds so much more fulfilling.
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