Today’s Blog: A Covenant with Our Eyes?
TODAY’S PROVERB: Let them be yours alone
and not shared with strangers. Proverbs 5:17, TLV
Have you ever sat in a movie theater and felt like you were watching something you shouldn’t? Not only are we watching something we shouldn’t, but we’re sitting in the dark with strangers doing it. Talk about creepy. Sometimes I’ve felt more like a peeping tom rather that someone who paid for a ticket to be entertained.
We’re beginning the “seduction” chapters of Proverbs. These are the proverbs that warn us about succumbing to the temptations of adultery and fornication. In today’s verse, the writer warns us to not share our virtue with strangers. But what about surrendering our virtue without ever meeting the temptation in person?
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that everyone who looks upon a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
JESUS, MATTHEW 5:27-28, TLV
Personal, yet impersonal
Today we don’t have to purchase a ticket to watch images that tempt us. We don’t have to have a one-on-one encounter to succumb to temptation. Exposure to adultery or fornication happens every day in the privacy of our home with our televisions, computers, and even our phones. Think that it is unavoidable? The reality is we may actually be surrendering our virtue and integrity to these images.
Covenant with Our Eyes
Job, thought by some scholars to be the oldest text in the cannon of scriptures, made a conscious decision to not surrender his virtue and integrity.
“I made a covenant with my eyes
JOB 31:1, TLV
not to pay attention to a virgin . . .”
He made a covenant with his eyes. This is noteworthy. What we watch feeds our mind, emotions, and spirit — whether sexual, violent, demonic, or hateful. Job understood that his eyes were the portal to his mind and spirit.
King David knew intimately of temptations — mostly because of how his succumbing to them had devastating results.
“No base thing will I set before my eyes. Twisted behavior I hate—it will not cling to me.”
KING DAVID, PSALM 101:3, TLV
“The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore if your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.”
YESHUA, MATTHEW 6:22, TLV
Choosing to make a covenant
Many years ago, my husband chose to make a covenant with his eyes. Today, when those images appear, he looks at me until they’re gone. Even it the image is on commercials. We give a show/movie one questionable image, if it happens again, it’s turned off.
I’m impressed with my Bob, but really, I should do the same thing. We all should. Let’s try it for 24 hours and see how many times we were exposed to images that steal our virtue. Are you with me?
May we make a covenant with our eyes, my friends.
Proverbs 5:17 Tree of Life Version – TLV, #tlvbible, #tlvproverbs
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