Today, I am reading and commenting on  Proverbs 5-8.

While these proverbs address a young man and warn him against an adulterous woman, in today’s society the same message should be heeded by either sex against adulterous members of either sex.  The writer connects such behavior with a lack of discipline and warns that both (adulterous behavior and lack of discipline) will lead one to destruction.  Instead of allowing ourselves to become involved with the adulterous, let us embrace wisdom.  Wisdom will teach us to avoid becoming troublemakers and villains.  Further it teaches us to avoid such people.  But for me, the greatest part of these comes in chapter 8 where the writer tells us that wisdom is not only there for those who seek it, but is calling out to the simple, inviting them to join her (wisdom), prudence, knowledge, and discretion.  The writer goes on to tell us that wisdom abhors and flees from those who are proud and arrogant, or who practice evil behavior or perverse speech.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.