Ecclesiastes 7: 26 I discovered that a seductive woman is a trap more bitter than death. Her passion is a snare, and her soft hands are chains. Those who are pleasing to God will escape her, but sinners will be caught in her snare.
27 “This is my conclusion,” says the Teacher. “I discovered this after looking at the matter from every possible angle. 28 Though I have searched repeatedly, I have not found what I was looking for. Only one out of a thousand men is virtuous, but not one woman! 29 But I did find this: God created people to be virtuous, but they have each turned to follow their own downward path.”

well.. I don't know about you.. but I found this to be an amazing scripture.. how often do we think it is the man that is not virtuous.. that is the experience we have had.. that is the truth that we have known.. yet scripturally... it says it is the woman that is not virtuous... that was a shocker for me...

but is it....

look back over your life... we have used our 'womanhood' to manipulate men.. to change them.. (even if only for the time being) to trap them.. to keep them... to hurt them...

honestly.. if we think about it.. men almost fall into being with women.. we on the other hand.. plan it out... we think about it ahead of time.. and then we walk forward.. usually men don't think it out.. it is there and they fall into it.. then they can't seem to figure out how to get away from it... a man will rarely sleep with someone just to hurt you... that may be the result.. but usually not the intention...

only one man out of a thousand is virtuous... but not one woman... that really stings...

God created people to be virtuous but they have each turned to follow their own downward path..

that has been true of me.. I am on God's path now.. but truly I was on my own path in the past...

I am thankful that God is the God of a second and third and fourth chance.. maybe I was not promiscuous in my life.. but I was also not virtuous.. virtuous is both morally and ethically excellent.. I have not been that....

but thankfully.. I am on the path for it now! Thank you Jesus for life changing power and grace and mercy and forgiveness... Thank you for giving us a lifetime to get it right..