Our enemies try to attack us by making us do what comes natural. “Do what feel right.” “If it feels so good it can’t be bad.” Our nature is evil, so if the enemy can get us to do what comes naturally, he has already won.
Jer 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also can you do good who are accustom to doing evil.
Romans 3:9-13 No one is righteous, no, not one; no one understands no one seeks for God.
Isa 53:6 We all like sheep have gone astray; we have turned – every one – to his own way.
Eph 2:3 [We] were, by nature, children of wrath like the rest of mankind.
Our enemies strategy is to get us to follow our impulses and do what comes naturally to us. So they will try to appeal to our fleshly desires. Sin usually has a certain attraction to it. If sin were presented in all its vile filthiness, we would not be attracted to it. But it tries to hide its true nature. Proverbs 5:3 says:
Prov 5:3 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil,
Further in chapter 23 verse 31 it says:
Prov 23:31 Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
If the truth of the matter were presented in all its fullness, we would not likely go after it. By committing this adultery, your marriage will be broken, your children will not respect you few will trust you. This woman you are after will eventually hate you and you will be alone in this world. This is not the way to happiness, but the way to destruction. This wine is strong and smooth but if you indulge you will become sick and wake up in pain. You will drink away your job and loose the ability to really experience this life for you will always be in under the cloud of a drunken stupor. If you were granted insight into what your life would be by so indulging, you would not say “Yes, that is what I want my life to be.” Yet all of that is hidden in the temptations that comes our way.