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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.