Hello everyone. I apologize for not posting on Wednesday night but I came down with some type of virus, but am on the mends. Without further adieu, let's look at our second bad girl in this Bible study - Popiphar's wife.
The author of "Bad Girls of the Bible," Liz Curtis Higgs, opens up the second chapter with Mitzi leaning over the breakfast table toward her husband, Christopher, making sure she offers him more than just coffee..."So...may I serve you something before you head to the office?" She asks seductively. Christopher doesn't even glance up from the newspaper he's reading but does strike up a conversation by telling Mitzi about a new guy he had hired at the office by the name of Joe, the kind of man "you can trust with the company bankbook...and everything else." Christopher winks at his wife while he says this last sentence. What Christopher doesn't know is that he may be able to trust Joe with everything including the company's bankbook, but Mitzi has already set her sites on this young prey. She noticed him at the and his musky smelling aftershave at the company picnic last weekend. She didn't care about the rumors that he lived a squeaky-clean lifestyle and was religious to a fault. She thought that was perfect - she loved a good challenge. So, after asking Christopher if he'd be home for dinner and receving the usual reply of, "Not tonight, sweetheart" and something about meetings..blah, blah, blah...Mitzi didn't care after that. She was already thinking of how she was going to get Joe over to the house so she could have her way with him. She waved to Christopher as he backed down the driveway all the while composing a list of things she needed to do...first, she made a few phone calls...telling the gardner and the housekeeper to take the day off, and then she hung a note on the front door for the UPS man to leave the packages on the porch. "No doorbells please. I might be napping. Correction - she might be in bed if all went as planned."
Now for the challenge of getting her prey, oops, rather Joe to come to the house...she picks up the phone, changes her voice tone a bit so the receptionist won't recognize her, and asks for, "Joe in Property Management, please." When Joe comes on the line, Mitzi drops her voice back down to its usual "husky pitch" and introduces herself as Christopher's wife. In a few minutes, after telling Joe that Christopher left an important file at the house that he will need for his meetings that day, Joe is putty in her hands and tells her he will be there in 30 minutes. After hanging up the phone, she quickly bathes and dresses in a scarlet gown that leaves nothing to the imagination along with a gauzy robe and red slippers. As she brushes her hair she hears a brisk knock at the door. Joseph! She practically skips down the stairs and stops to catch her breath. She doesn't want to appear too eager...her smile changes to a look of surprise as she opens the door. Joseph, who was very handsome and well built, look shocked and quickly shifted his gaze to the planters on the porch. He tried looking everywhere else but at her. She quickly stretched out her hand to catch his and forced him to meet her gaze, "Silly man! Have you never seen a woman in her pajamas? you merely got here too fast for me to change, that's all. Come on in and let me see if I can find that file."
She's smoother than a double-blended mocha frappucino. Poor Joseph doesn't stand a chance.
After Mitzi messes around with "trying to find that file," she quickly finds out this is definitely going to be more of a challenge than she had originally thought. Slowly slipping his jacket off, she allows her hands to brush against his chest. She asks him if he knows why she invited him, and he says, "it's becoming clearer to him by the moment." She nods, relieved, and says, "Good. Then we don't have to play games, do we? I want you, Joe."
Joe clears his throat and takes a step backward, pressing his broad shoulders against the front door. "No simple at all. You're Christopher's wife. He gave me this job, promoted me to manager. He trusts me with..he trusts me with everything." This gave Mitzi perverse pleasure to see how he sweated...boy she was affecting him wasn't she...she watched him gulp and wipe his hands along the sides of his suit pants. Laughter spilled from her lips. "Come to bed with me, Joe. Believe me, Chris not only won't know, he wouldn't care." Joe groped for the knob behind him and yanked the door open. "You don't understand! It isn't only Christopher I'm worried about. This..this is a sin!! A sin against the Lord. The Lord I love with all of my heart." Disgusted, she sputtered, "The Lord!! What has God got to do with this?" Kinda sounds like a Tina Turner song, right? What's God got to do, got to do with it?? Joe looks at her and smiles and says, "Everything." Then he bolted for his cars and the tires squealed all the way down the street.
You can imagine how our sultry seductress felt at this moment...until...she...spotted...his...jacket!!! Now she felt the sweet taste of revenge rising in her throat. "You'll pay, Joe. You'll pay you holier-than-thou-jerk!!"
When she heard the receptionists voice on the other end of the phone, she snapped on a teary sob, "Uh, B-Betty? Is that you? I'm so...scared! Is Christopher there? Please. Tell him I need to talk to him. Yes, yes, interrupt the meeting. Right away!"
That's how the modern-day Potiphar's Wife does it!! Genesis 39, chapters 1 - 23 - the story of Joseph and Potiphar's Wife. It's worth your time to read these chapters and see the similarities in our modern-day Mrs. P. We've all heard stories, watched Lifetime movies, and perhaps, unfortunately, experienced her in our lives. As destructive as she can be, what lessons can we learn from her?
No comments:
Post a Comment