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Proverbs 6:23-26 CEB
The commandment is a lamp and instruction a light; corrective teaching is the path of life.  [24] They guard you from the evil woman, from the flattering tongue of the foreign woman.  [25] Don't desire her beauty in secret; don't let her take you in with her eyelashes,  [26] for a prostitute costs a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts for a man's very life.  
Proverbs 6:23-26 CEB
Yikes!
I wonder how often this proverb and passages like it have been used to tell a story about women, what they're about, about men, how easily manipulated...but what if this is all a metaphor to get our attention, to get us thinking about what it is that captures our hearts?
No married woman is hunting for me, but my social media feeds are hunting for my attention, doing everything they possibly can to pull me into their orbit.
Advertisers telling me what I "deserve".
And then there's the things that are not on the Path of Life that my heart gets drawn towards.
On it's own.
And then there's the lies. 
Lies I've been told about me, lies I've believed because of what others have done, lies of the Enemy, that often come with some kernal of truth, something that draws us in...
The world
The enemy
Our own heart
No wonder Proverbs wants to get our attention, and gently invite us back to the Path of Life.
#proverbs 
#wisdom 
#somethingtochewon #itsaheartthing 
#followtheredemptivestrands

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