Guard Your Seeing

Good Morning!! A lustful look is the beginning of most sins. It was an unguarded look which led to the fall of Achan into covetousness, and David into adultery. A covetous glance soon leads to covetous thoughts, which soon lead to covetous plans, which soon lead to covetous actions. Job, therefore, had determined to cut off the sin of covetousness at its root, by promising himself never even to look at a single woman in a lustful way.

"I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman".—Job 31:1 (NIV)

This covenant with his eyes, he rhetorically asserts, will inevitably guard him from lustful thoughts about other women. Job's personal commitment to overcome a besetting sin of almost every man is convicting. But it is also encouraging, because the fact that he made such a covenant means that it is possible to fulfill his end of the agreement. Believer, know this: it's possible,...although it will require the help of the Holy Spirit, self-crucifixion, and constant self-watch,...to overcome the sin of lust.

So the question that Job's integrity puts before us is this: do I love God enough to fore go the temporary and deceitful pleasures of lustful stares,...in order to fix my gaze upon God?

Lord guard our seeing, that our actions are pleasing to You. Amen.

"Know this; We're all enabled and equipped to carry out God's purpose for our life,...if God said it, then it will come to pass."