Honoring God with our eyes

Job said, "I made a covenant with my eyes not to look with lust upon a young woman.” (Job 31:1). I wonder why Job would look at a female Lustfully in his time. Didn’t the women in Job’s time and location wear bedding around their bodies and heads? I think they dressed like ninjas. So, why would Job even be tempted to look at women lustfully? The Bible says in Jeremiah that, “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” Lust is ultimately a problem of the heart and Job knew this. Since the beginning of time, men and women have gazed upon one another with self-serving, perverted intentions. We can ruin anything that was intended to be good. Give a little boy a stick and he’ll turn it into a weapon.
What about us? Do we even have a chance for Holiness in the day and age we live in today? We are bombarded with Pornographic images on the computer, television, camera cell phones, friends, family etc. If Job knew that he must guard his eyes in the time where women dressed like Ninjas; as Christians today, how much more must we be aware of what we are looking at? Let’s be like Job, who was aware of the sinfulness of his heart. And let’s make the covenant to honor God with our eyes and hearts.
We’ll talk more about this tomorrow night. See you there.

In Christ,
Ben Youngkin