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Freedom from Traps Ecclesiastes 7:26 · Life For Toledo

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  I'm thinking today of Ecclesiastes 7 .26. It
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  says, And I discovered, more bitter than death,
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  the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose
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  hands are chains. One who is pleasing to God
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  will escape from her, but the sinner will be
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  captured by her. Ecclesiastes 7 .26. This is
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  probably talking about actual women. It's also
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  a metaphor, of course, and can speak about a
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  lot of things. And the truth is, we're not just
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  talking about women. We've heard so much about
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  wicked men by this point in time in the book
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  and all throughout the Bible that we know that
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  both men and women are like this. People can
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  do this to one another. To escape means to be
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  at least briefly trapped or nabbed, latched onto.
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  When a person has no proper relationship with
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  God, they are in real danger. They could be both
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  trapped and trapper. That's why we get codependent
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  relationships. where people are in a relationship
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  making the other person out to be something they
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  need them to be because they need them to be
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  that, and both things are bad, but they need
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  the codependent relationship in order to feel
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  alive. Living without the life giver of the universe,
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  without a real relationship with God, becomes
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  a life seeking day by day. You look for life,
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  look for positive things in other people, or
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  even bad things, so that you can feel better
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  about yourself. The problem is... People will
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  always fail. People are not God. The relationship
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  you were created for is the relationship with
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  the God of the universe. A sinner will get trapped
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  in these kinds of relationships. But a person
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  who has a relationship with God, even should
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  they be nabbed shortly, will break free.