Have you ever heard this statement about women, “You can’t live with them and you can’t live without them.” Now keep this in mind, I am not against women and I am not a chauvinist pig, nor am I blaming women for all of man’s downfall, but many times it includes women.
It seems to me there have been many godly men that have been brought down by women regardless of which one was at fault. The first incident was Adam and Eve. Eve was deceived and then gave to Adam the fruit and he ate of it and that was the end of his perfect estate, he lost his close relationship with the Lord and brought sin and curses to mankind and the whole world. Many people blame all this mainly on Adam but in all truth it wasn’t Adam that sinned first, it was Eve and then after she was deceived she involved Adam in her sin and he voluntarily sinned but this does not excuse him of his primary role, he did sin and the responsibility still lies on his shoulders. It says in 1 Timothy 2:13-14, “For Adam was first formed then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.” I took these verses out of the KJV, Life Application Study Bible. I wonder what would have happened if Eve didn’t sin, and, why did the serpent pick her instead of trying to deceive Adam? Oh well, I guess we will never know.
Then there was Samson and Delilah, another very familiar story. Samson’s downfall in Judges 16 is well known: Delilah hounds Samson to tell her the secret of his strength so he gives in and tells her. She in turn tells the Philistine rulers about his hair and then they cut his hair and capture him because the Lord had departed from him. He loses his eyes and ends up like a donkey hooked to a grinding wheel, all for the love of a woman.
Here is another example; King David and Bath-sheba, the story is found in 2 Samuel 11:1-27. Bath-sheba had no fault in this situation, to refuse a King could mean certain death. Instead of David being involved in kingly business he stayed home and let Joab take care of his affairs which was his first mistake. Then rising from his bed and walking on the roof of his house he saw a beautiful woman bathing and it was downhill from there. His lust got the best of him and sin followed and to cover up that sin and another followed and in doing so he displeased the Lord and brought trouble on himself and his family. Sin usually affects more than the one who commits it.
One more example is King Solomon, King David’s son. King Solomon started out well but ended up miserably. In his case there were many women that led him astray into idolatry. Solomon had a lot of wisdom but he had a problem applying it to spiritual matters. He applied his wisdom to political matters instead of spiritual matters and that ended up being his downfall. When it came to women he did evil in the sight of the Lord. It says in 1 Kings 11:1-6, “But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites— from the nations of whom the Lord had said to the children of Israel, ‘You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods.’ Solomon clung to these in love. And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart. For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not fully follow the Lord, as did his father David.” Solomon’s wives turned his heart away from the Lord to worship other gods, to his shame and disgrace.
The Lord has created many beautiful women but the beauty on the outside is just the icing on the cake, so to speak, it is what is in the inside that counts. Men are taken in by beautiful women every day who become their downfall, so be very careful, many wise and smart men have been trapped then devastated by beautiful women that use their looks for craftiness and deceit. Don’t make a mistake and get trapped by one, look for one with a humble and contrite heart then you won’t go wrong. A believer should never date or marry a non-believer, thinking they are going to change them somewhere down the road because, more times than not, it doesn’t happen that way. Don’t let a woman be your Achilles heel ~ which is like a weakness you have that you struggle with.
God bless you and have a great day and don’t forget to thank and praise the Lord!!
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