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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