So with the warm weather approaching, so does the flood of temptations to have the eyes dwell over women's bodies' parts. I wish that women knew what modesty is, so that men could have some help!
Men will lust after real women's bodies' parts, fake women's bodies' parts like mannequins, pictures of real and fake womens' bodies' parts, and even cartoons of womens' bodies' parts. We will lust after images in our heads from lustful looks a decade old. We're tempted by the flesh!
So why do we do it? We're seeking joy. Men are tempted to believe that we'll find pleasure in seeing the top of a breast or the roundness of a bottom. How pathetic. It really is. The look should not thrill us.
But why should it not? Because we're stealing. We're not glorifying God. It is a good thing to have a pleasure from looking at beauty. But that object of passion must be the spouse! Not your brother's spouse!
And we're so guilty throughout out lives. Jesus did not come to die on the cross merely to remove wrath. He wants to rewire wants. He wants to change our eyeball patterns by changing our hearts, and natures. And He has if you've repented and believed.
Have you felt the weight of temptation increase with warmer weather? We need to feel the weight of the word even more!
We must give an account of everything we do in the body, whether good or bad.
I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
You were called to purity, not impurity.
If your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out!
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
The grace of God has appeared, teaching us to renounce ungodly passions and to live self-controlled lives.
Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue.
Do not even consider how to gratify the cravings of the sinful nature.
You have died to sin.
And with the eyeballs specifically, I think of Job: I have made a covenant with my eyes that I will not look lustfully at a woman. Have you made a covenant? Have you promised to be pure with your eyes? Are you diverting or divulging looks?
If we're honest, we probably failed today. But tonight is new grace and mercy! Tomorrow is a day of victory. We must be confident that we can be satisfied with Christ and dissatisfied with crap. We can be passionate about the Lord and dispassionate about lust. We can be fixing our eyes on Jesus and not on womens' bodies' parts.
Do you agree? Do you see diverting of the eyes as joyful?
