How do you protect your virtue?
TODAY'S PROVERB: Let them be yours alone and not shared with strangers. Proverbs 5:17
Have you ever sat in a movie theater and felt like you were watching something you shouldn't? Felt more like a peeping tom rather than someone who paid for a ticket to be entertained?
We're beginning the seduction chapters of Proverbs. The proverbs that warn us about succumbing to the temptations of adultery and fornication. This proverb speaks of not sharing our virtue with strangers. But what about strangers taking our virtue?
I was thinking this morning what Jesus said about that. He said: “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that everyone who looks upon a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
Today we don't have to purchase a ticket to watch images that tempt us. We can expose ourselves to adultery or fornication in the privacy of our own homes. We may think that this is just the way it is in today's world, but the reality is this has been around for thousands of years--there truly is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9).
Job, many scholars believe, is the oldest book of the Bible. What does he say about images that tempt us? “I made a covenant with my eyes not to pay attention to a virgin..." (Job 31:1)
What we watch feeds our mind and spirit--whether sexual, violent, demonic, or hateful. Job understood that his eyes were the portal to his mind and spirit and sought to covenant with GOD to keep his eyes pure. King David knew intimately of the temptations: "No base thing will I set before my eyes.Twisted behavior I hate—it will not cling to me."
Yeshua said, "The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore if your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light." When we view images of darkness, we dim His light in us.
Many years ago, my husband chose to make a covenant with his eyes. Today when images appear, he looks at me until they're gone. Even with commercials. We give a show/movie one "chance." If something happens again, off it goes.
Over time if we continue to watch these images we can become desensitized to them.
I wonder if we should try a fast of any of the shows where we feel "uncomfortable" with some of the images. Fast to see how prevalent it might be in our life. Let's try it for 24 hours and see what happens. Are you with me?
May we keep strangers from our virtue, my friends.
Proverbs 5:17, #tlvbible #tlvproverbs
[WATCH Tree of Life Bible Society's CEO, Daniah Greenberg and me, Terri Gillespie, Author dig a little deeper with this proverb. Check us out at Tree of Life Bible Society, Monday through Friday, LIVE at 8:30am EST. Watch previous episodes there as well. Stay wise, my friends!]
Have you ever sat in a movie theater and felt like you were watching something you shouldn't? Felt more like a peeping tom rather than someone who paid for a ticket to be entertained?
We're beginning the seduction chapters of Proverbs. The proverbs that warn us about succumbing to the temptations of adultery and fornication. This proverb speaks of not sharing our virtue with strangers. But what about strangers taking our virtue?
I was thinking this morning what Jesus said about that. He said: “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that everyone who looks upon a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
Today we don't have to purchase a ticket to watch images that tempt us. We can expose ourselves to adultery or fornication in the privacy of our own homes. We may think that this is just the way it is in today's world, but the reality is this has been around for thousands of years--there truly is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9).
Job, many scholars believe, is the oldest book of the Bible. What does he say about images that tempt us? “I made a covenant with my eyes not to pay attention to a virgin..." (Job 31:1)
What we watch feeds our mind and spirit--whether sexual, violent, demonic, or hateful. Job understood that his eyes were the portal to his mind and spirit and sought to covenant with GOD to keep his eyes pure. King David knew intimately of the temptations: "No base thing will I set before my eyes.Twisted behavior I hate—it will not cling to me."
Yeshua said, "The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore if your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light." When we view images of darkness, we dim His light in us.
Many years ago, my husband chose to make a covenant with his eyes. Today when images appear, he looks at me until they're gone. Even with commercials. We give a show/movie one "chance." If something happens again, off it goes.
Over time if we continue to watch these images we can become desensitized to them.
I wonder if we should try a fast of any of the shows where we feel "uncomfortable" with some of the images. Fast to see how prevalent it might be in our life. Let's try it for 24 hours and see what happens. Are you with me?
May we keep strangers from our virtue, my friends.
Proverbs 5:17, #tlvbible #tlvproverbs
[WATCH Tree of Life Bible Society's CEO, Daniah Greenberg and me, Terri Gillespie, Author dig a little deeper with this proverb. Check us out at Tree of Life Bible Society, Monday through Friday, LIVE at 8:30am EST. Watch previous episodes there as well. Stay wise, my friends!]
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