Proverbs 6:25

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 a wink:

Proverbs 6:25 (ESV)

Do not desire her beauty in your heart,

and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;

Just a wink ... that's all it takes.   She winks with her eyelid and she has his heart.   A young high school boy is caught with the wink and is soon captured in the heart.  That scene is played out hundreds and hundreds of times in high school campuses across our country.  It is played out in college cafeterias.  It is also played out in corporate board rooms.  Regretfully it is played out in churches sometimes, with one married spouse to a spouse in another marriage.   Solomon is warning us that when a young man gets the "wink" he can become captured in the heart.   Our heart is connected to our eyes.   That is why Jesus, in Matthew 7, told the disciples if  your "eye" offends you pluck it out.  He wasn't saying to actually pluck the eye out.  He was referring to the heart.   The eye is just the portal to the heart.    So, we are to be careful what we look at because that will destroy the heart.   When a man lusts after a women in his heart he is first lead that way by the eye.   If you want a pure heart don't put impure things before you in the eye.  What Solomon as just said, prior to this proverb is:

Proverbs 6:23-24 (ESV Strong's)

For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,

and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

to preserve you from the evil woman,

from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

If we use our eyes to case them toward God’s Word and God’s commands, we can be prepared to ward off the “wink” of the woman “folly.”   Those who are captured by her beauty are those who have lost sight of the beauty of God’s Word and His way.