Like death
and destruction, our eyes are never satisfied. It is good to have strong visual
boundaries and keep our sight within them. Just because it's "pleasing to
the eye," doesn't mean it's "good" for us.
May's Message, Day 10:
Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither
are human eyes. Proverbs 27:20 NIV
God has
wonderfully created us as visual beings and much of what we learn and gather
through our senses is visual in nature. Yet since we are fallen creatures,
vision is also a source of great temptation. It has been so since The Garden,
as the fruit of the forbidden tree was, "good for food and pleasing to the
eye," (Genesis 3:6 NIV). We want what we see even though it is not ours,
or is forbidden and ultimately destructive. This world constantly bombards us
visually with temptation after temptation. The more we succumb to these
temptations the more we want. It requires a great deal of will-power and
integrity to ignore these visual distractions and be content with what is
legitimately ours, and to know that just because it is "pleasing to the
eye," doesn't mean that it is good for us. We must have strong boundaries
and keep our sight within them. Sometimes it's just best to cover our eyes.
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