Day Seven

Proverbs 7:11-12  (Dissected and Defined):
[The strange woman] ...is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.

Daily Devo Paraphrase: I believe this strange woman represents temptation.  I would encourage you to consider her role as that of the “tempter.”

Solomon indicates she is loud and stubborn.  The word stubborn in today’s vernacular means a rebellious person.  So, he is teaching that temptation is loud and rebellious. As a teen, my first temptation was loud and rebellious.  It was bad music.  It began with a singer named Billy Idol.  His song sang out “With a rebel yell, she cried more, more, more!” This was the cry of a woman, loud (yelling) and rebellious (rebel is a nickname for them).  But she wanted “more, more, more!”  She could not be satisfied. 
Of course, she could not be satisfied.  When we feed an appetite for any of the characteristics for temptation, we will only make the appetite stronger, never weaker.

Like the rebel yell, I began to long for loud and rebellious music, friends, entertainment, and women.  These appetites grew as I continued to feed them.My life spun out of control to the temptations of the world, and its appetites had complete control over me.  I was hopelessly obese to the “things of this world” and in need of a starvation from this world’s rebellious cries for more, more, more. 
From there, I had only one choice: give my life to God and beg Him to help empower me to starve my fleshly appetites.

As I learned to feed good appetites, I found that my submission (not rebellion) to the still, soft (not loud) voice of the Spirit to be quite filling and fulfilling.  I needed this world no more.  I was satisfied to be full of Him.

I suggest that we exchange our “Rebel Yell” into a “Righteous Yielding.”  We will not cry “more, more, more!”  For we will be satisfied.
Shhh!  Did you hear that?  I did—finally!