MARCH 20, 2025 ~ FROM A PASTOR'S HEART

MARCH 20 DEVOTIONAL BIBLE READING: PHILIPPIANS 4:8-9

Our eyes are not only the windows into our minds, but also our souls. It is through our eyes that so much enters into us. We can't always determine what our eyes see, but we can determine how long they remain on something they should not. In our day and time everything the eye might want to see is instantly available on the internet. This becomes a dangerous thing for so many. It is amazing that what a person can just begin looking at, can eventually destroy them. In Genesis it says that when Eve saw that the fruit on the tree was good...then she took and ate. The Tempter was there with her and she looked upon the tree, made a self-determination and brought in death. Men are very visual creatures, and the enemy of our soul knows how to use this to destroy men, their relationships, their families, their lives.

I have heard people say that they can look at anything and it has no impact on them. These people are fooling themselves. There is a reason that advertisers use beautiful models, both male and female, to try to sell every product under the sun. Our mind can take us places we ought not to go...and it is our eyes through which we gaze upon these things. Job said that he "made a covenant with his eyes not to gaze upon a young maid." We, too, need to make a covenant with our eyes and surrender them to the Holy Spirit, asking Him to protect us from looking where we ought not to look. Jesus said, “Even to look at a woman with lust in your heart is to commit adultery.” And Paul reminds us to think on those things which are pure and holy. We decide what we will fill our minds with. We decide what we will gaze at...we decide what will consume our thoughts. It all begins with a look and from there it can lead to destruction. Make a covenant with God about your eyes today and every day. Don't gaze at that which is contrary to what is good and holy.

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