Not everyone with whom we expose our hearts to is worthy. There is a throne on our hearts and for that reason, it is for our own good to be selective with whom we open up and bare our hearts. Because our warring is not against flesh and blood (Ephesians 6:12), Some people are nefariously placed on our paths with the desideratum of luring and distracting us from pursuing our dreams and thereby derailing us from our destinies.
These people, colloquially, are analogous to spiritual prostitutes. Spiritual prostitutes whose only motive is to seduce, steal and destroy. Just like Delilah and the prostitute in Gaza, whose primary role was to seduce Samson in an attempt to destroy his destiny (Judges 16), these people appear in our lives to seduce us away from our dreams and sabotage our destinies. “The one who unites his soul with a prostitute becomes one with her…” (1 Corinthians 6:16). While this scripture refers to sexual encounters, metaphorically, it can be used to describe the union of souls in the baring of their souls to one other.
In order to seduce Samson from his destiny, Delilah played on his heart, nagging and taunting him saying, “how can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you won’t confide in me?” (Judges 16:15). Eventually, Samson let his guard down and exposed his heart and soul to her. And as he gave it all over to her, she lead him like a lamb to slaughter. Even the wise Book of Proverbs advises us to be weary of certain people with persuasive words who seek to seduce with their smooth talk in order to lead us astray. It says those who fall prey to the seduction will be “…like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer stepping into a noose till an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare, little knowing it will cost him his life” (Proverbs 7:21–23). And so was the fate of the mighty Samson before God intervened one last time.
When there is greatness in our lives, the enemy will use any means necessary to distract and derail us from our destinies. With the exploitation of the spiritual prostitute, though we may not see it with the naked eye, once placed before the magnifying glass, their assignment to distract and derail manifests as broken hearts, depression, anxiety, or disorders. Once this manifests, our character and personality is altered such that we lose sight of who we are and do things that are far from who we know ourselves to be. When this happens, the enemy’s spell of distraction and derailment has command over us and our souls are in union with the enemy.
The enemy knows the power of the heart and if he can make the heart suffocate, he knows that it will be difficult for us to focus on God’s plans for us today and for our futures. Because in the throes of pain, it often feels as though the world is ending and the pain will never cease. It is for this reason that God saw it fit to emphasise that “above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it” (Proverbs 4:23).
Through the use of pain, the spiritual prostitute designs the plan to have us vacate Jesus from the throne of our hearts, thereby leaving it vacant and exposed to worry, despair and everything else that is not of God’s plan for our futures. Make no mistake, there is a throne on our hearts, but as to who seats on it, is entirely up to us, for Ephesians 3:17 says, “…Christ will make His home in your hearts as you trust in Him.”
©Katie Mliswa and MomentsbyKatie.M, 2018.
