Devotional Thoughts From Proverbs

For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding. … And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart. … Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.     Proverbs 7:6,7,10,27

     Though many in Western society do not wish to hear it, sexual sin is not only against the will of the living God for all humanity, but it is dangerous. Sexual sin can result in sickness, remorse, loss of character, death, and even hell.

     Young people engaged in premarital fornication spoil themselves morally, and rob their future spouses of the purity God desires them to bring to the marriage bed. Married men and women put their marriages and families in the path of danger, at risk for breakup and generational immorality when they commit adultery. They also risk an unfaithful spouse’s passing of disease to the other. How many children are being born around the world with A.I.D.S., or other dread diseases that come from sexual sin?

     Jealous husbands (and wives) have been known to kill over infidelity. A man may die raving in a mental hospital completely out of his mind because of sexually transmitted disease, or could be killed in a car accident on a rain swept night as he speeds to the immoral rendezvous, or be mugged and murdered by criminals waiting for unsuspecting Johns outside a brothel.

     A society loses social purity, uprightness, honesty, structural support, moral strength, and political wisdom when sexual sin is the basis of communal life. The banding together of one ethnic group against another, violence in the streets, the powerful oppressing the powerless are all companion sins of the sexual sins that plague a society.

     Modern Western societies need is to repent towards God, and have respect towards our fellow man.