Guard Your Peace
Our human eyes can consume so many images daily but it’s how you react to what you see that can impact your heart.
Are you going to linger on a thought or are you going to reject it and keep moving?
Matthew 5:27-30 NIV
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.”
As Christians we live off of the Grace of God.
This means that you can commit sexual sin in your heart by even looking at someone with Lust. The Bible says this person has already committed sin in their heart. So this also goes the same for any sin not just the sexual sin. Sin is sin. What I love is that Jesus not only brings us to conviction in this verse but He also tells us how we can avoid eventually having our whole body thrown into hell.
He says if your right eye causes you to stumble…
What does this mean?
This means you can stumble in your heart by what you have let in. The Word says the eyes are the lamp of the body.
“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!”
Matthew 6:22-23 NIV
This means that what we consume or let in to our hearts can eventually infect us internally if we do not take the proper steps to seeking and walking in the light that is…Jesus.
So what do you do?
We repent by taking action. Notice how Jesus tells us to gouge out our eye and throw it away.
Cutt off the infection before it spreads. For if one body part becomes infected this means we take our heart to Jesus so that our heart and ultimately our entire body does not become infected with darkness and that we may receive the necessary healing. However, it is also important that the wound is cured with the proper healing process. Does this mean that you agitate the wound, no. Does this mean that you maltreat the wound, no, you take the proper precaution so that that wound is healed and restored. You also make sure that the wound is in the right environment for healing. But above all else we must always take our wounds to Jesus so that He carries us as He remains faithful to complete the good work that He began in us.
