GUARDING MY EARS
Today's reading: Proverbs 7

"She seduced him with her pretty speech. With her flattery she enticed him." Proverbs 7:21 NLT

Like the simple-minded young man in this proverb, I must watch out for the silvery-tongued siren of temptation.

She calls out to me, too.

Even at this early hour.

Sometimes in regards to things I'm never, in a million years, tempted by.

She seduces me to lounge when I should be up and at God's business.

She lures me into conversations I needn't be involved in.

She baits me and hooks me with things that drag me down, make me turn my back on God and tarnish my witness for Him.

She entices me to not listen to God but to my own desires.

She tempts me to hold onto grudges my God-filled heart was never intended to harbor.

She leads me to believe no one, not even God, is looking out for my best interests.

I've got to watch out for her and her wily ways. She's tricky, that one.