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“Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet…” (Isa. 3:16). Goals, priorities, and norms are often reflected in the women who make up the various strata within a given society. In Isaiah’s day, the daughters of Zion were proud, immodest, covetous, seductive, shameless, immoral, and presumptuous. Isaiah’s condemnation was only of those wanton women; instead, he showed how they highlighted…

Fish don’t bite the hook because they want the hook; they bite because they want what hides the hook. That is temptation. Like the fisherman, Satan doesn’t drop his line without bait, advertising the hook; otherwise, temptation wouldn’t work. Instead, our adversary advertises the bait: pleasure, not consequence; desire, not death. We have a level of discernment which is not matched by the fish. We can, if we choose, identify the hook hidden within the bait. James writes to us,…