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Proverbs 4:20-27; ; Proverbs 5:1-23

All the senses, all the vital functions of the believer must remain under the control of wisdom. This wisdom, dear Christian friend, God has put at your disposal (James 1:5). Through it, you are responsible to watch over your ears (v. 20), your eyes (vv. 21, 25), your feet (vv. 26, 27; see Psalms 119:101), your thoughts, your lips (Proverbs 5:2) and, above all, your heart, the operational centre which governs the whole being (v. 23). If the heart is lost, it is all up with you. How many have missed out in their lives and have shed bitter tears, because in the time of their youth they allowed an affection to develop which was not according to the Lord!

If the lips are the outlet of the heart, the eyes are the main entrance to the heart. Be careful to ensure then that your eyes look straight on before you. May they be fixed on the Lord Jesus, the Object of the race of faith (Hebrews 12:2). In this way, no lust of the flesh will be able to find ready access there.

Vv. 8-14 describe the misery of the one who has allowed himself to be turned aside by "the strange woman": he gives his "years unto the cruel" (v. 9). We have given far too many of our years to Satan before our conversion. Would you want to return to his domination?

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