Proverbs 23:27

The book of Proverbs gives us insights into so many different areas of life. The book gives us instruction on how to live our lives for God. Here is a proverb that gives us insight about temptation:

Proverbs 23:27 (ESV)

For a prostitute is a deep pit;

an adulteress is a narrow well.

This whole chapter is about the dangers and the lies of the world system.  The products and the deception of the world is massive.  This chapter talks about the dangers and enticement of food, drink and sex.  In the above proverb we learn about the prostitute.  In Proverbs the prostitute is both a real woman and the picture of folly.   Here we have both a contrasting Hebrew poem and a complimentary poem.   Solomon is contrasting the "deep" and the "narrow" while at the same time complimenting the dangers of the prostitute and that of adultery.  Make no mistake, that Folly wants us to fall into her pit and get stuck in her well.   Make no mistake that the world will try to entice us with the smell and look of the harlot and the adulterous women but the dangers are real.  They suck you in to a place you can't get out.   The world's system are systems of extreme and systems of failure.   When we believe their lies we will find it tough to get out of the system.   The world wants to lock us in.   Only God can give us freedom.  Only Wisdom can give us safety.  God is Wisdom.   The World is folly.   Choose God.  Notice what sin wants to do: 

James 1:13-15 (ESV)

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

John Owen said it this way:

Our desires (epithumia) area always:

1) INCLINING to evil, 

2)HINDERING from that which is good, 

3)DISFRAMING the spirit from communion with God.