Proverbs 7:19,20 . When the strange woman says, “The good man is gone a long journey and will not be back until the appointed time.” she is lying. He is in the house watching right then. God is never departed from us; his Holy Spirit is ever with us. We are compassed by a cloud of witnesses. When we do something sinful we are being watched. Our sin nature may like to think the "good man" has departed, but it is the deceitful flesh (the foolish woman) lying to us. When she says it is OK to watch the TV program with pornography in it, we must realize God is in the room watching us watch it. This is the battleground of the flesh. We must overcome our flesh that so easily deceives us. We naturally want to sin; it is hard to resist sin, to do wholesome things. The struggle is now, at this time.
We must realize the battle is not so hard to win. “Hearken unto me now, LET NOT thine heart DECLINE to her ways, go not astray in her paths.” "Decline" is a good word to describe the process.
Proverbs 5:8 says "remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house" . “Remove” is the important word. Once we are near the door of her house (the foolish or whorish woman’s house) we are closer to it and are more tempted to go in than if we had never entered her neighborhood. Keep away from the neighborhood and you will not be near the door. It’s far easier to choose the right path at the beginning of the journey than to change it once embarked.
