Psalms 36-38
Thus opens Psalm 36... "Sin whispers to the wicked" beckoning them come, deceptive in its quietude. In the garden of Eden, if the serpent had brashly ordered Adam and Eve to flagrantly defy the master gardener, they would have probably run away, but as it was, sin whispered them in. Once caught up in sin, their conceit keeps them from seeing their real condition... they make no attempt to turn back because they do not even know how far they have turned from true north.
Nothing much has changed since Eden or the heyday of Jerusalem. Sin still beckons... and the wicked still respond. The righteous trust in the Lord, but how easily we get distracted from the narrow path. When you think about it, it is nor smart. If you were traversing a narrow path where the stakes were great (like on the face of a cliff) wouldn't you keep a steely focus on the path and not look the left or the right. Why then do we get distracted by the whisper of sin as we travel the narrow path to heaven, where the cost of failure is so much higher?
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