How the prostitute uses her tongue to entice the man (Part 5):

[Leonardo Von]

How the prostitute uses her tongue to entice the man (Part 5):

●    "And behold, a woman welcomes to meet him, dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart." (Proverbs 07:10).
●    "So she seizes him and kisses him and with a brazen face she says to him: ““I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.”" (Proverbs 7:13,17).

Fifth thing: she makes everything smell sweet and pleasant.

It's normal someone yearn for good smell. Until the Creator like this:

●    "Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. The Lord smelled the soothing aroma; and the Lord said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done." (Genesis 8:20-21).

Notwithstanding, when we refuse to obey Him, every sacrifice that we do will be turned away by Him:

●    "‘Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me, I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas." (Leviticus 26:27,31).

The great secret for the success of all relationship is integrity and honesty. That is to say, don't matter what people feel in regard to us, let our life be what the Creator wants us to be:

●    "But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?" (2 Corinthians 2:14-16).

Jesus never change His high standard of holiness and purity of please anybody. The proof of this can be seen:

●    after the multiplication of the breads and fishes. At the beginning of the chapter, there was a great multitude following Jesus. At the end, only remain the twelve apostles. They can't stand hearing the discourse of Jesus (John 6.60). However, Jesus didn't intimidate, but shake the disciples asking them if they didn't wish to leave too (John 6.60,61,67)

●    When Jesus was informed by the apostles that the Pharisees got scandalized with these words. He answered: “...Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted." (Matthew 15:13).

I know that, many times, we crave for seeing every person converted to Christ (see 2Peter 3.9). Nonetheless, our role is to show Christ such as He is. Don't try to prostitute Jesus adorning Him with flesh promises or denying to say all the truth in order to make Him more pleasant to the "goats" or "wolfs". Our role isn't to entertain them, but to feed Jesus' sheep (Jesus enjoined this to Peter THREE times - John 21.15,16,17). 

Leave Christ to be in the life of every person what He desire to be, and not what you wish or think that He needs to be. In other words, if He desire to be stone of edification to some people and of stumble to other (1Peter 2.5-8), let it be. Only obey His voice and leave that His word that go out of His mouth fulfills what delights to Him (and not what you expect - SEE Isaiah 55.10,11).

So, have a good day don't precluding Jesus to be “what” and “WHO” HE IS.  (Recall how He define Himself to Moses - Exodus 3.14,15).