The Eye: A hindering member to holiness
Mathew 18:9 “And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.”
Mine eyes affected mine heart because of all the daughters of my city, says Jeremiah the prophet. The promiscuity of this generation has risen to the highest plane. Immorality is now displayed not only on television, and on the internet. Not only these, human beings are now pictures of sexual perversion in this degenerated dispensation.
Satan is working very hard to make sure that nudity becomes the order of the day, to the eyes of the people. And Satan knows that the eye is the light of the body, which when corrupt, darkens the whole soul. As believers, God expects us to shut our eyes against evil.
The cities where we live have quite a lot of things. The things we see are disheartening, for instance, the indecently dressed young ladies that usually stand at the street corners to commercialize sexual immorality. That’s their occupation, that’s their job, that’s how they earn money. And some have been actively involved in this for long.
The heartbreaking truth is that, the devil is using this to drag many to hell. Very often, when you walk past them, they know that, this is a prospective customer. Yet you harbour some impure thoughts when you see them, you forget the words of Jesus that says, “whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in in his heart.”
Why do you always have to take that road when there’s an alternative? Why are you thinking in your mind, I’m going through this way today, I hope I’ll see another free nude person? Why can’t you take an alternate route for your own sake? Depart ye, depart ye! Is that the only route to get to your destination? If you are indeed very serious about not soiling your mind with the unholy pictures you’ll likely encounter that will certainly lead to the defilement of your thought and mind, you’ll take an alternative route.
It’s important you shut your eyes against evil instead of trying to manage what you’ve seen afterwards. This shows that you are truly saved as well as sanctified. It shows that you’re a real child of God who is mindful about not perishing by an object of temptation. Apostle Paul gave us an admonition regarding this, “that we keep our body under, and bring it into subjection.” Our eyes should be brought under control and full discipline because it is what we see, that replays within us when we commune with our hearts on our beds.
Therefore, let us be prayerful, and strive to be holy. That we might appear before him spotless and without blemish. For there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Those who keep themselves in sanctification and holiness will see Him. That’s why the Bible says, “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” It really pays to be holy, though impossible without the grace of God. But thank God, the grace of Jesus is abundant for us. And by the help of God’s Holy Spirit abiding within, with his sanctifying grace, we shall be holy unto God.
Reagan Azoyenime is a born again Christian and an undergraduate student of Ambrose Ali University, Nigeria. He writes edifying Christian messages centred on salvation in Christ and holiness.
E-mail: razoyenime@gmail.com
