Heavenly Bodies

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman , and embrace the bosom of a stranger?  Proverbs 5:20.  
The word ravished is Shahgah in Hebrew.  "And why wilt thou, my son, be Shahgah?"
Shagah has several meanings:
1) to go astray, stray, to err.  A perfect example is Samson.  Samson was a Judge (Judges 13-16) who should have been at home delivering his people from the hands of their enemies.  Instead he went astray 'Shagah' chasing after Philistine women.
2) to swerve, meander, reel, roll, be intoxicate, err (in drunkenness).  This is the case in the Rod Stewart song Infatuation that I talked about yesterday.  Listen to the lyrics:
Early in the morning I can't sleep
I can't work and I can't eat
I've been drunk all day, can't concentrate
Maybe I'm making a big mistake
3) to lead astray.  This is the act of purposefully leading someone down the wrong path.

Taken together it means that there's more than way to go astray.  We can stray after something or someone.  Another way it can happen is when we fix our gaze on the wrong object and we start to deviate.  We may think we have it under control but if we keep going in that direction we're going to have an accident.  And sometimes the enemy sets a trap for us according to the third definition.
One way we can be ravished is to indulge in pornography which is readily available at the touch of a mouse button:
The U.S. Customs Service estimates that there are more than 100,000 websites offering child pornography (which are illegal) worldwide.
Red Herring Magazine, 1/18/02


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By Grace,


Travis P. Dickerson