“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! "
Matthew 6:22, 23 NKJV
Jesus said it.
He warned us.
Our eyes are the windows into our souls, and the lamp of the body. We have to be vigilant, because what we allow to enter into us is brought in primarily through our eyes.
The Lord gave us eyes, which are truly remarkable in their design and engineering, as a blessing.
He intended us to be able to experience all the beauty of his creation, and to be used as part of the holy vessels - us- for holy purposes. He also gave us necks that can rotate (towards or away something), eyelids that protect our eyes from both environmental dangers, and spiritual dangers.
We live in a perverse and wicked generation; technology has given us instant access to so many excellent things- the Bible online, for example, but there is a great darkness, a terrible poisoning, that can be crouching just behind a few keystrokes of a smart phone.
I speak of pornography here.
Once the eyes of a man allow pornographic images into his mind and consequently his soul, there is more often than not an unholy hunger that is unleashed.
I know of what I speak.
Part of my testimony is that after many years as a believer, I became addicted to pornography. My connection to the Holy Spirit was severely impaired, as He cannot dwell in an unrepentant vessel filled wth darkness.
I am not alone...it is estimated that over 70% of professing believers have pornography addictions/habits. Take a good look around at church .
That means 3 out of 4 men in the average congregation.
Great men of God are falling because of this, because the eye went unguarded.
There is no area of a man's life that remains undarkened by this habit. How he views his marriage or relationship with women, how he physically sees and or looks at women, lust is in itself adultery and furthermore blows open the door to adultery. "So as a man thinks, he becomes." A man overtaken by this addiction does not consider how this would affect those around him. I wrote a blog after having a vision of a field full of straight furrows, where the tractor or plowman had then gone off course and cut through the other furrows, damaging them. The Lord showed me that the plowman was a backslidden person had had turned to the left or right in sin, and his actions had damaged the lives and the Walk (causing tremendous damage in their relationships with Jesus) of those who were in his sphere of influence.
Be vigilant, and diligent, beloved.
Guard your eyes, and therefore your hearts.
"My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life. Let your eyes look straight ahead, And your eyelids look right before you. Ponder the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established. Do not turn to the right or the left; Remove your foot from evil." (Proverbs 4:20, 22, 23, 25-27 NKJV)
Matthew 6:22, 23 NKJV
Jesus said it.
He warned us.
Our eyes are the windows into our souls, and the lamp of the body. We have to be vigilant, because what we allow to enter into us is brought in primarily through our eyes.
The Lord gave us eyes, which are truly remarkable in their design and engineering, as a blessing.
He intended us to be able to experience all the beauty of his creation, and to be used as part of the holy vessels - us- for holy purposes. He also gave us necks that can rotate (towards or away something), eyelids that protect our eyes from both environmental dangers, and spiritual dangers.
We live in a perverse and wicked generation; technology has given us instant access to so many excellent things- the Bible online, for example, but there is a great darkness, a terrible poisoning, that can be crouching just behind a few keystrokes of a smart phone.
I speak of pornography here.
Once the eyes of a man allow pornographic images into his mind and consequently his soul, there is more often than not an unholy hunger that is unleashed.
I know of what I speak.
Part of my testimony is that after many years as a believer, I became addicted to pornography. My connection to the Holy Spirit was severely impaired, as He cannot dwell in an unrepentant vessel filled wth darkness.
I am not alone...it is estimated that over 70% of professing believers have pornography addictions/habits. Take a good look around at church .
That means 3 out of 4 men in the average congregation.
Great men of God are falling because of this, because the eye went unguarded.
There is no area of a man's life that remains undarkened by this habit. How he views his marriage or relationship with women, how he physically sees and or looks at women, lust is in itself adultery and furthermore blows open the door to adultery. "So as a man thinks, he becomes." A man overtaken by this addiction does not consider how this would affect those around him. I wrote a blog after having a vision of a field full of straight furrows, where the tractor or plowman had then gone off course and cut through the other furrows, damaging them. The Lord showed me that the plowman was a backslidden person had had turned to the left or right in sin, and his actions had damaged the lives and the Walk (causing tremendous damage in their relationships with Jesus) of those who were in his sphere of influence.
Be vigilant, and diligent, beloved.
Guard your eyes, and therefore your hearts.
"My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life. Let your eyes look straight ahead, And your eyelids look right before you. Ponder the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established. Do not turn to the right or the left; Remove your foot from evil." (Proverbs 4:20, 22, 23, 25-27 NKJV)
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