“Summer Wine” is a song written by Lee Hazlewood. It was originally sung by Suzi Jane Hokom and Lee Hazlewood in 1966. It’s about a proud cowboy coming into town thinking he was worth a million. She saw him coming, and with her summer wine and smooth talk, he was taken for all he was worth. Robbed, he awakened with a headache that would haunt him the rest of his days.
The Bible describes such scenes played over and over again in every generation:
Proverbs 7:6-10
For at the window of my house
I looked through my lattice,
And saw among the simple,
I perceived among the youths,
A young man devoid of understanding,
Passing along the street near her corner;
And he took the path to her house
In the twilight, in the evening,
In the black and dark night.
And there a woman met him,
With the attire of a harlot, and a crafty heart.
If a person is to rightly interpret Scripture, he realizes that the “she” doesn’t have to be a woman. “She” can represent a business deal, alcohol, a drug, a relationship or even a career. What’s contained in her deceit is the destruction of the soul. As a song writer once put it, “Another one bites the dust.”
Proverbs is the book of wisdom. One must face the realization that “she” is there and awaits the foolish.
Give it some thought.
Gary