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This morning in Sunday school I am having one of those locker room moments with the guys. I don’t mean that in a sick, sexual way. I mean that in the terms of us older folks as we look back and say, when was it that they pulled the girls aside and taught them all that “girl stuff.” Today is like that, we are pulling the boys aside to talk about guy stuff.

This morning is all about guarding your heart until you find the woman you want to marry. The idea comes from Solomon in Proverbs. But I want to point this out… Because it shows more wisdom than he intended.

As a young leader of Israel, Solomon wrote: (Proverbs 4)
23 Above all else, guard your heart,
for it is the wellspring of life.
24 Put away perversity from your mouth;
keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
25 Let your eyes look straight ahead,
fix your gaze directly before you.
26 Make level [b] paths for your feet
and take only ways that are firm.
27 Do not swerve to the right or the left;
keep your foot from evil.

He says, guard you heart… And to do that put away perversity… Or being perverted.

But Solomon didn’t listen to his own advice
We know this from Jewish history, Solomon didn’t listen to his own wise advice. Look at what happened to him!

1 Kings 11:1 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter-Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. 2 They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. 3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray. 4 As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been.

Kind of one of those things that teaches itself, eh?

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