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 seeing a naive young man:
Proverbs 7:6-8
For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice,
And I saw among the naive, and discerned among the youths
A young man lacking sense, Passing through the street near her corner; and he takes the way to her house,
In this beloved chapter, Solomon tells us a story of a young man who wanders into the area where a prostitute resides. He falls to her temptations and is destroyed in the end. It is a sad story and one that bears repeating in the ears of many. In verse six of the story the narrator (Solomon?) is looking through his window at the street below and sees the young man. My question is two-fold: One for the narrator and one for us? 1). If you see the young man why don't you stop him? 2). Do you and I bother to look and when we see the young man, do we take the interest to stop him? I assume question number one, for the narrator, is, that the story is not about him but about what the young, naive boy does. But I think we all should use this as a mirror into our own lives and ask are we looking for these people and if we see them are we doing anything? Each day we watch others travel down the same road to destruction. We seldom stop them from following the path of destruction. James 5 tells us we can save a soul from death, when we intervene. In Galatians 6 we are told to help those who fall into sin. I believe the story here is for us to learn from it. But we ought to learn as much about how to stop the destruction of the naive as much as what happens to them if they are not stopped.
Do you ever look through your window at the world around you and see what Solomon saw? Solomon saw a young man who followed a path, to provide us a learning story. We have people all around us going through the same things. They are right in front of us. Solomon didn't tell the story and look to stop the young man. The Holy Spirit wanted us to see this story to learn form it. But one of the items to learn is that we see young, naive men all the time who are doing the same things. We have some responsibility to stop them from going the way of this path - to pass by her (folly) place (see the end of the chapter). We should take time to look through our windows. We should take time to see the naive around us and provide direction for them when we see them. If not provide direction, learn from their mistake(s).
For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice,
And I saw among the naive, and discerned among the youths
A young man lacking sense, Passing through the street near her corner; and he takes the way to her house,
In this beloved chapter, Solomon tells us a story of a young man who wanders into the area where a prostitute resides. He falls to her temptations and is destroyed in the end. It is a sad story and one that bears repeating in the ears of many. In verse six of the story the narrator (Solomon?) is looking through his window at the street below and sees the young man. My question is two-fold: One for the narrator and one for us? 1). If you see the young man why don't you stop him? 2). Do you and I bother to look and when we see the young man, do we take the interest to stop him? I assume question number one, for the narrator, is, that the story is not about him but about what the young, naive boy does. But I think we all should use this as a mirror into our own lives and ask are we looking for these people and if we see them are we doing anything? Each day we watch others travel down the same road to destruction. We seldom stop them from following the path of destruction. James 5 tells us we can save a soul from death, when we intervene. In Galatians 6 we are told to help those who fall into sin. I believe the story here is for us to learn from it. But we ought to learn as much about how to stop the destruction of the naive as much as what happens to them if they are not stopped.
Do you ever look through your window at the world around you and see what Solomon saw? Solomon saw a young man who followed a path, to provide us a learning story. We have people all around us going through the same things. They are right in front of us. Solomon didn't tell the story and look to stop the young man. The Holy Spirit wanted us to see this story to learn form it. But one of the items to learn is that we see young, naive men all the time who are doing the same things. We have some responsibility to stop them from going the way of this path - to pass by her (folly) place (see the end of the chapter). We should take time to look through our windows. We should take time to see the naive around us and provide direction for them when we see them. If not provide direction, learn from their mistake(s).
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