Girls Gone Wise

I’m hard at work writing a new book:  “Girls Gone Wise…in a World Gone Wild” which will be published in the Spring of 2010. The book revolves around the story of the typical Girl-Gone-Wild as recorded for us in the Bible, in Proverbs chapter seven. Jesus’ favorite and most powerful teaching tactic was the parable. So it’s no wonder that we see this same method used by the sage father when he instructed his son to stay away from wild women.

What I’m going to do is unpack the Proverbs seven tale about the typical Wild Woman and contrast her characteristics with those of the typical Wise Woman. There are 21 Points of Contrast. Over the next few weeks, as I complete the chapters, I’ll give you a sneak peek into each one.

But first, let me post the text, so you can read it for yourself.

“Be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding… [The wild* woman's] feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; she does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it…

At the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice, and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense, passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness. And behold, the woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart. She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home; now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait. She seizes him and kisses him, and with bold face she says to him ‘I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows; so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you. I have spread my couch with coverings, colored linens from Egyptian linen; I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love. For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey; he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home.’ With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him. All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life. And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth. Let not your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths, for many a victim has she laid low, and all her slain are a mighty throng. Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.”

Proverbs 5:1,5,6; 7:6-27

In this book, I want to contrast the attitudes and behaviors of a Girl-Gone-Wild with those of a Girl-Gone-Wise. I want to do this for two reasons. First, I hope that you might grow in spiritual discernment so you can spot the difference between wild and wise when it comes to the right biblical attitudes, thought patterns, and behavior for women.  Second, I pray that this awareness will help you say “yes” to God’s ideas about womanhood and “no” to the tremendous pressure to conform to the world’s pattern and to the Girl-Gone-Wild sin tendencies in your own heart. My goal, in the final analysis, is that by reading this book, you might become more biblically savvy and godly in the way you think and conduct yourself in your relationship with men. As the title clearly indicates, I want you to become a Girl-Gone-Wise in a world gone wild.

© Mary A. Kassian

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This is a pre-publication excerpt from “Girls Gone Wise in a World gone Wild,” © Mary A. Kassian to be published by Moody Publishers in 2010. All rights reserved. You are welcome to link to this post, but please do not copy and/or reproduce this copyrighted material without express written permission of Moody Publishing.

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