Proverbs 7: 8-10

⁸ He was going down the street near her corner,
    walking along in the direction of her house
⁹ at twilight, as the day was fading,
    as the dark of night set in.

¹⁰ Then out came a woman to meet him,
    dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent.

If we think of the simple boy from yesterday, we will notice from our window, that he is going  down her street.  The thought has been laid and the feet are following. To keep every thought before Christ is to allow restrictions and discipline into our thinking and into our heart.  As we enter into sins street, I imagine the long moving sidewalks at the airport.  As we set our sights on the destination of our indulgence and sin – we enter onto this moving walkway that sweeps us to her front door----we need not move ---our thoughts have already taken us there.

The day is fading- the darkness settles around us as we are whisked ever closer to her door, through the thoughts of our imaginations and longings. The woman will come out to meet us. Sin longing for a home, will play with our thoughts and our minds and manipulate our emotions to keep us on that moving walkway, until we enter into her grasp.

BUT GOD…..but God came so that we might live fully .  But God, came so that we can have power over sin. But God, came so that we would house the power and authority within us. But God came to shatter every paradigm and give us a way off of the moving walkway.

We continue on with our reading:

¹¹ (She is unruly and defiant,
    her feet never stay at home;
¹² now in the street, now in the squares,
    at every corner she lurks.)

Remember that our enemy has a counterfeit for every good thing that comes from the Father.  Let us remember Wisdom:

“Wisdom cries aloud in the streets, in the markets she raises her voice at the head of the city gates she speaks, “ How long, o simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge? Proverbs 1:20-23

Wisdom does not lurk- she occupies the marketplace and stands by the city gates.  The adulteress is unruly and defiant, in the streets, in the squares at every corner she lurks.  Can you feel the counterfeit or our Lady Wisdom?  Both occupy our cities, but who has our attention?