My eyes are like a camera and video recorder, capturing images and making my mind think through them and make me desire or repulse somethings.
One minute I will see a certain dress code and allow my head to just go on a spiral and I will notice that in my heart I have assumed that such a dress code would not be by a believer.
Other times I will look at the material things people own and secretly wonder what it would be like living their lives (lust, jealousy, envy).
There are times when I also see a passionate love for Christ in a person and my heart longs to love my God deeply.
What does God say concerning our eyes and how can we please Him with them?
The eye, door to the heart
Job 31:1
“I made a covenant with my eyes
not to look lustfully at a young woman.
What we allow our eyes to see should be honourable before God. Our eyes open our hearts to good and evil thoughts.
Psalm 101:3
I will not look with approval
on anything that is vile.
I hate what faithless people do;
I will have no part in it.
The psalmist and Job make a vow to keep their eyes from looking or approving that which is extremely unpleasant (evil). The reality of the matter is that our eyes actually act as door that can be very dangerous if we do not guard what we look at.
With the eyes we approve and disapprove what we consume. Our eyes can shun evil.
An unguarded heart and satan's destruction
Mark 7:20-23
20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. 21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
When our hearts remain unguarded, they bring forth traits that are evil. When this happens, we give the devil opportunities to destroy us. We give him a foothold in our lives and he only seeks to destroy us and make us miss on Jesus Christ's great salvation.
Jesus Christ's victory
John 10:10
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
Christ Jesus has come to bring to life (make alive) the purity of our hearts so that we remain with pure hearts and live abundantly in Him.
The devil on the other hand is a thief who steals the purity Christ wants us to have, then kills us through sin and destroys us.
Romans 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in[a] Christ Jesus our Lord.
Recommended resources
Wireless Computer Mouse with BIBLE VERSE PSALM 101:3
Notebook-(Above All Else, Guard Your Heart)
Bible Verse Bracelet-(Above All Else Guard Your Heart)
Bible journal-(Above All Else, Guard Your Heart)
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