Proverbs 7:18

The book of Proverbs gives us a lot of instruction on a lot of different subjects. One subject that can keep us in God’s wisdom is Godly Follower-ship. Who we follow; where we follow; how we follow are all spoken about in Proverbs. Here is one of them about the dangers of sin:

Proverbs 7:18 (ESV)

Come, let us take our fill of love till morning;

let us delight ourselves with love.

I recently attended the opening day of baseball season.   It was a great day.  The park was packed.   It was the second largest crowd to ever watch a game in that stadium.   As I sat along the left-field foul line I was amazed and, heartbroken, over how the world was sitting there watching a game (with me in attendance) with no cares in the world.   And, this was just a ball game.   Read the above proverb and put Solomon's words into this perspective.   Here in chapter seven we have the picture of folly seducing a young, naive boy with the temptation of a prostitute.  All this is a picture of how sin seduces us.  Folly (sin) invites the young man to enjoy love with him.   This is not a baseball game.   This is intimate love-making.  (Solomon, again, stretching metaphors, equates love-making to eating ... See also Proverbs 9:17; 30:20; SS 4:16; 5:1).  Despite what is about to happen (see the destruction outlined in verse 27) Folly wants us to enjoy the sin, as though we are making love, with no fear or care in the world.   Folly wants us to "delight in caresses" despite death knocking at the door.   Baseball, sex, recreation, it doesn't matter.  The world is passing away and doesn't even notice their headed for destruction.   Like a slow moving baseball game, they enjoy life, get drunk, yell at each other, and after the game move on to some other distraction.   Sin is like that.  It simply wants us to enjoy life and not consider life.   "Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning" is the cry from the world.   Too many hear and respond.  The "sex" is too good.   But, death awaits when we fail to put our trust in God for our life and salvation.  Solomon wrote all these proverbs (and many more) for us to wake up.  The naive one in chapter seven will die in the end.  So, the phrase, “let us drink our fill of love until morning,” meant just that ... UNTIL MORNING.