How easy it is to follow bad advice, but how easy is it to follow good instruction. As I reexamined the evidence surrounding the police brutality in a case concerning a male, name George Floyd, something occurred that had not occurred to me was there evidence in the autospy report of damage to Mr. Floyd airway. The ambulance had been called to the scene before the incident of the knee in the neck on a video I was listen too. There is point I making, bad advice often comes without hearing good advice. How does this apply to the video. If we fail to look at all the evidence we fail to know if the cop was guilty or not. If we only take one piece of evidence it can be blown out of proportion or twist to appear brutal or unbrutal. Why am I weaving this in, because I made a comment a while ago based on evidence the media was display at the time, and not the full length of the video. There something else true if we only look at half the Bible it can twisted to say many different things that are not true, as well as twisted to untwist the many things that are true.

Now if you going to take advice who do you want to take it from someone with all the cards in life or the one holding only what he can see. Devil is holding a king it might appear but what he does not hold is the Ace that goes with the three other aces in God's hand. Devil might have a piece of the pie and it sure looks good but God got the whole pie that fills the belly.

I look at Solomon life as a young king and wonder when Proverbs 5 was written, then I realize it matters not it good advice and good warning about the advice which comes from the adulteress woman called bad advice. The Serpent gave Eve bad advice that got her and Adam kicked from paradise. Yet in Solomon case he listening maybe to his father King David warning while examining the example of King David life style. David warning about the woman of seduction, the one that will lure one to the pit of hell if allowed. It is the instruction of the adulter of God. The one that like the serpent who twisted God's word to bait Eve to following his advice to eat what appeared edible. Following the adulteress harlot is like following deception and intrigue of what it unknown to you, but fully known to God as being the route of destruction.

Are we following God or the harlot/devil in the path of unrighteousness against God. You can almost imagine the harlot bending toward her hope to be lover with her pouty mouth and shining lips of paint, to kiss the check, or lips of her future victim. Her sweetness almost to the point of tasting her perfume, only to be lead to the doorway of destruction. God speaking don't follow don't obey the voice of another, listen my friend, don't do it. Cain listening not to God but followed his own desire of evil against his brother when he killed Abel.

The door of the harlot beckoning to the bedroom or closed chamber of sin. Yet the Lord speaking remove oneself from the door of disaster and come and listen to sound instruction, Come and hear the words of instruction not from the rowdy bars but from they own refrigation in your home. Come on do not take a drink of disaster that takes you from the bedroom of your own house to the house of a stranger. If you follow the instructions of God it will go will with you and your family forever and ever.

The harlot sounding as true harlot but the proverb is speaking poetically of evil instruction that is temptation to man and the sound instruction that whispered by the Holy Spirit. Solomon had over 700 wives plus concubines. One has to ask what did Solomon do with all those women? What was his life style, and yet he was a man of wisdom, no wisdom of the heart only and wisdom spoken to others. His royalty based on his wealth and the woman he married and took in to his house of harlots. Why a house of harlots because these woman would turn his heart from God to worship Asthrothe and sacrifice their babies to her as well as Chemosh.

The wealth of the king one of destruction, or one of true wealth, yet God had said he would bless him because why? When God asked Solomon what he wanted, he said he wanted to have wisdom to rule the nation of Israel. And with that God promised to bless him not only with wisdom of the heart but with wealth. Yet did the wealth Solomon have become things not of God. Did he use what God gave him for the devil. Did he heed to the warning of marrying woman of other nations. Did he heed God's warning of whoredom from him. For Solomon became an idolator? Yet he had the wisdom of knowledge and understanding but knew not how to use what he had. His desire outweighed the instructions of God in his heart.

God is clear if we will obey him and not hunger in our heart for things God desire us not to have, we understand that God way is protected, the devil way is not. We understand that we demonstrate through our actions who we believe and not only believe but trust. Does our actions display we trust in God or in the harlot of destruction.

Dear Heavenly Father, as we look at your word and instruction clearly, we see the devil of the world following in the footsteps of adultery and not the footsteps of your promises. We look at our own life and see our own failings, and ask Lord to remove any action in my life that is not an action of your grace, your mercy, and hope. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: 1 Kings 3:5-15 KJV
5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
6 And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
7 And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
8 And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
10 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
12 Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

1 Kings 11:1-14 KJV
1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.
7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
9 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.
11 Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
14 And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.