Proverbs 6:4 "Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber."
No, this is not a proof-text for playing video games all night. The context is speaking of one who needs to resolve interpersonal matters that have ensnared him/her. Matters must be resolved to find agreement with one's neighbor.
Proverbs 6:6 "Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise...9 How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest."
As believers called to walk worthy of our highest calling, we'd do well to consider the ant's ways more often. There is wisdom in her many steps. If you aren't an ant, you are a slug. The sluggard is warned like the ensnared believer in vv. 1-5 to not rest until something is resolved. In the slug's case, it is that he must become wise like the ant. Slugs sleep, ants act.
Proverbs 6:21 "Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck. 22 When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you."
When God's Word and godly instruction is bound around your heart, it is living and active. These words will lead you, watch over you, and talk with you. Does the wisdom of God's Word live in you in this manner?
Proverbs 6:25 "Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes."
The heart is what is fought for in the spiritual battle. Either the Word is living, active, and richly dwelling within, or the beauty of the things of this world will be actively destroying you from the inside. Do not be captured by anything but the Word.
Proverbs 6:29 "So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; none who touches her will go unpunished...32 He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself."
The one who commits adultery in deed or in desire can expect one thing--consequences. To not "go unpunished" and to "destroy himself" show that consequences are brought upon you by one who punishes and that consequences are brought upon your life by yourself. Be wise and turn from the error of your ways and seek a vibrant, living relationship with the God of all wisdom.
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