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Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 249 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Proverbs 7:21-27
Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 249 of our Trek, and today we continue to remain at camp as we search for the nuggets of wisdom found in the book of Proverbs. Yesterday we explored Chapter 7:10-20. Since each day’s discussion builds on the previous ones, if you miss any of our Wisdom-Trek episodes, please go to Wisdom-Trek.com to listen to them and read the daily journal.

As mentioned on previous days, Paula and I are refining all of these daily concepts, along with worksheets, for ‘Your Life Plan Blueprint,' which we covered in January, into an easy to use workbook.  I will let you know when it is complete so that you can download it.

We are recording our podcast from our studio at ‘Home2’ in Charlotte, NC.  The hours each day just fly by and before I realize how much time has passed it is time for me to make dinner.  Dinner preparations is a time for me to sort of wind down from the day.  I really enjoy preparing dinner, and we do strive to eat healthy each day.  It is part of our overall life plan to remain physically, mentally and spiritually fit for a long time into the future.  It does take consistent persistence, as we pursue our life purpose to be a difference maker in our world.  We had our son Fred over for dinner Tuesday evening and it was a good time to get caught up with his daily life and routines.
 
Let’s now return to camp for a time of sharing and telling stories around the campfire.   The fire dancing off the logs is mesmerizing to me and it is easy to get lost in my thoughts.  As the flames reach for the sky, and the smoke is blown back and forth in the light breeze, it reminds me of the story that we will continue with today from Proverbs Chapter 7.

The title of the story we began 3 days ago is:
Another Warning about Immoral Women
Yesterday we left off on our story about a simple, naïve young man, who finds himself in the embrace of a beautiful woman who is very convincing.  She is dressed seductively and tells this young man that she has prepared her bed specifically just for him.  The young man finds himself in this situation because of the choices that he made earlier that evening.  He may be thinking, that this is where he really desires to be.  We are told that he lacks common sense, and certainly he is thinking with his body and not his mind… but he still has a choice.  Does he stay, or will he flee?   Let’s continue on to see how the story unfolds in Chapter 7:21–27.  I will break this passage into two sections.
·       Chapter 7
Unfortunately, he does not flee as we continue in verse 21-23

21 So she seduced him with her pretty speech
    and enticed him with her flattery.
22 He followed her at once,
    like an ox going to the slaughter.
He was like a stag caught in a trap,
23     awaiting the arrow that would pierce its heart.
He was like a bird flying into a snare,
    little knowing it would cost him his life.

We see that the naïve young man chose to remain.  Her seductive, pretty speech was more than he felt he could resist.  She enticed him with flattery where he thought that he was really something special in her eyes.  This reminds me of Proverbs 5:3 For the lips of an immoral woman are as sweet as honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil.  She appeared to be both sweet and smooth.

Any time we make unwise choices the outcome ...