Proverbs 7:15
“Therefore I have come out to meet you,
To seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you.
Sin always makes you think you are special. Sin (here, personified as an adulterous women) introduces herself to the simple one as though she had a particular purpose to attract him. However, earlier we read that she is on every street, on every corner:
Proverbs 7:12
now in the street, now in the market,
and at every corner she lies in wait.
Sin wants us to believe we are special. Sin wants us to believe we are the center of the universe. Here the simple one thinks he has some special place in life now. However, we are not special when it comes to sin. We are simply one of many victims of her cruel trap. Note the end of this chapter ... "many are lead astray by her" ... "numerous are the slain" by her.
Proverbs 7:26
for many a victim has she laid low,
and all her slain are a mighty throng.
We are not special to sin and when we fall to her trap we simply join many others who are equally deceived by her. Let's not let sin deceive us into thinking we are alone and special in the sin equation. She hasn't found us or come out to meet us ... we stumbled into her world because of a lack of discipline and lack of direction. If we spend our life doing the things God told us to do we won't have time to let sin attract and entice us. Sin appeals to our vanity. Remember, this young man in the story was a simple youth or lacked understanding:
Proverbs 7:7
and I have seen among the simple,
I have perceived among the youths,
a young man lacking sense,
This "being found" by this adulterous woman must have seemed so special. He was at the center of her universe. We love to be made to feel like we are special. Sin, however, simply uses us and entices us through our vanity only to destroy us in leave us in depravity. We are not special to sin because we are simply sinners. It is only adhering to God's Word to make us free from the allure of sin.
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