Proverbs 30: 18 There are three things which are too wonderful for me,
Yes, four which I do not understand:
19 The way of an eagle in the air,
The way of a serpent on a rock,
The way of a ship in the midst of the sea,
And the way of a man with a virgin.
Proverbs 30: 20 This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, and says, “I have done no wickedness.”
Yes, four which I do not understand:
19 The way of an eagle in the air,
The way of a serpent on a rock,
The way of a ship in the midst of the sea,
And the way of a man with a virgin.
Proverbs 30: 20 This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, and says, “I have done no wickedness.”
Proverbs 30: 18-20. Bad girls are easy. (And not just in the way you think.)
Agur, author of Proverbs 30, says that the soaring majesty of the eagle is beyond his comprehension. The slithy lethality of the viper perplexes him. The power and fragility of a ship upon the see fills him with awe. And romance? The complexities of a relationship where the woman is a virgin----- code for a virtuous woman, a good girl---- that is way too much fo Agur, 2nd generation editor of the collected works of Solomon.
In verse 19, Agur confesses insufficient intellect to explain the intricacies of love with a good woman. In verse 20, Agur summarizes the mentality and method of an adulterous, immoral, or man-she’s-nothing-but-bad-news woman. In one sentence.
Good girls are complex. Bad girls are easy.
In 1 Peter 3:7, the Lord commands husbands to honor and to UNDERSTAND our wives.
If you’re married to a good woman, then you’re compelled to understand someone who is strong, but submitted to you; someone with her own will and wants whose desire is always after you; someone who spends hours each day trying to figure out how to help you be the best you without MAKING you do anything; someone who loves you so thoroughly that God doesn’t even bother to command her to love you.
I say, “Lord, it’d take me the rest of my life to understand somebody like that.”
And God says, “Exactly.”
But as for them other chicks: they’re easy to understand.
This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, and says, “I have done no wickedness.”
She takes. She consumes. She sucks the life from you, casts you away, and thinks nothing of it. Nothing complicated there.
Such women aren’t mysterious. They’re evil, and easy. Getting her body is simple, and when you get into her mind you’ll find that simple, too. As the great Prince Akeem (Coming to America) asked, “So why would you share your bed and your fortune with a beautiful fool?”
There are things in this life that, no matter how many times you see them, they always BLOW YOUR MIND! If you’re a man married to a good woman------ let your wife be one of those things.
---Anderson T. Graves II is a writer, community organizer and consultant for education, ministry, and rural leadership development.
Rev. Anderson T. Graves II is pastor of Hall Memorial CME Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
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