Day 230 - Proverbs 5

Proverbs 5  •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 6
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V.1 “My” son, “my” wisdom, “my” understanding, all refer to God.
V.2-14 There is nothing nicer in life than affection, but self-indulgence produces sorrow and ruin. The conscience is more and more numbed by self-indulgence — the will is not broken. If we are to keep ourselves morally pure, we need to steer clear of temptation. Selfishness wants to get; love wants to give. Human love depends on response from the object loved; divine love does not. Divine love brought the Son of God from heaven, knowing that no one would love Him or want Him. God has given us human love too — the family is the center of it. Satan tries to undo God’s work, and so we have “the strange woman,” to spoil this center of human love.
V.15-23 For the believer, marriage is a picture of Christ and His bride — every believer in Him. The home of every believer should be a little picture of this relationship. How careful therefore we should be that our home is holy. (Read such verses as 1 Pet. 3:1-7; Eph. 5:22-3322Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: 30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband. (Ephesians 5:22‑33)). What a test for us! Do we pray together each day?
V.21 What a reminder! At the judgment seat of Christ He will show how much He valued our thoughts, words and actions.
V.22-23 A warning for anyone who is not saved who may be reading these verses.