Proverbs 6:24-26
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.
The direction of instruction is itself instructive. We must be instructed NOT to believe flattery and instructed TO believe wisdom.
We are sinners by nature and by choice. The natural bent of sin is to want to believe the words of the strange woman because of her looks. There is an inborn "want to" when ti comes to sin and destruction. Therefore, proverbs are needed in order to keep one from wandering after meretriciousness.
Conversely, we are not naturally bent to believe the words of wisdom. We have to be instructed to want her and to believe her. We do possess an inherent "want to" when it comes to wisdom. We do not want what is wise by nature.
Instead, we rather prefer flattery. We would rather hear nice things that we know to be untrue than to hear hard things we suspect are true.
Our bent is to give our hearts to what is hunting us while resisting the efforts of that which is setting us free.
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