idiot medicine

Proverbs 5:3,4

“For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey,
 and her speech is smoother than oil,
 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
 sharp as a two-edged sword.”

This world produces no shortage of “forbidden women”.

As does our heart.

Could be a literal women, or a figurative one.

Marty Luther, probably quoting Augustine, referred to our own hearts as “idol factories”.

Factories constantly producing deceptive psuedo-saviors.

I can envision the puffs of smoke and hear the clanging of metal emerging from the idol factory within my own chest.

Like this proverbial temptress…at the end of the pseudo-savior factory production line is a product that drips like honey and is smooth as oil.

Imagine an evil Apple product launch.

Who does packaging better than Apple? I’ll wait.

The packaging, cords, adhesives, fit of the box with that awesome open, all of it honey drip and oil smooth.

Yet, evil Apple has inside all of its’ incredible outside packaging…a bitter, hated, wormwood…destructive like a sword that slices you to the core, even with the slightest touch.

Wise, mentors with some water under their bridge have often told me,

“All that glitters is not gold”

Idols always over-promise and under-deliver.

This proverb goes further…

What to you looks and sounds amazing and so promising and so good…

touching it is like pulling the pin on a grenade superglued to your hand and obliterating your life in a few seconds.

Let’s Walk Wisely.

Grindforth!

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