My husband is not home; he has gone on a long journey. He took his purse filled with money and will not be home till full moon. -Proverbs 7:19-20
Here she throws you the line that there are no consequences to fear because her husband is gone. There is no immediate threat. “Come on buddy, nobody will know. It will be great.” Doesn’t that sound like the devil himself? Of course, she never mentions God’s judgment that will come on your life or the consequences that are sure to follow. She focuses only on immediate pleasure. She reassures you that nothing is going to happen.
I have to illuminate a key idea that all seductresses operate in and will try to get you to believe. The idea is that their secrets exists. The idea that nobody will find out about this is an absolute lie. We serve an omnipresent God and He will know and will expose us if we don’t come clean about our choices. We are surrounded by a cloud of witnesses. (Hebrews 2:1) Also, we as believers have the Holy Spirit (God) inside of us. There is absolutely no such thing as a secret.
The Bible is clear that there is no such thing as a secret. In Mark 4:22 KJV, “For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested: neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad.” To believe in secrets is to deny the person and nature of God Himself.
This is why Solomon starts Proverbs 7 with a serious relationship with God. It inoculates you from believing in secrets which evaporates the words of a seductress. This idea of no secrets also applies to every form of technology that we use today. There are no secret apps, websites, Facebook friends or any social media secrets at all. God is God and therefore we should never believe He doesn’t know what we are doing at all times.
Simply put, if anyone tries to sell you on the idea of a secret, RUN!
With persuasive words she led him astray; she seduced him with her smooth talk. All at once he followed her like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer stepping into a noose. -Proverbs 7:21-22
The seductress’s most powerful weapon is her words. That’s why it’s not good to even talk, chat, text, email or private message her or in any way dialogue with a seductress. Many men have found the longer they talk to her, the weaker they become and the easier she can conquer them. Her words are smooth, kind, enticing and full of promises for immediate pleasure. Often times she suggests ideas so foreign to your Biblical worldview that over time you soften toward her views and can become more easily seduced. They are earmarks of a seductress.