March 28 | Job 31:1
“I have made a covenant with my eyes, so how could I look closely at a virgin?” (Job 31:1)
Most people struggle with lustful thoughts about the opposite gende. How do we stop ourselves from thinking those thoughts? Sometimes we don’t even realize it until we have been thinking them for a while.
We think we can get away with lost because it’s not very noticeable. Our brains can remember the images our eyes focus on for years. We can return to them repeatedly. It takes more than willpower. It takes an act of the Holy Spirit.
When he says he made a covenant with his eyes, he used a very serious approach. Covenants involved sacrificing animals, the shedding of blood, and understanding that if you violated a covenant, it meant trading your life, or at least an innocent animal’s life.
The covenant Job made was to avoid looking at women with lust. If he did, he knew the consequences. Job upped the stakes against lust. That’s how serious he was. Are you that serious? Don’t sacrifice any animals, but how can you up the stakes for yourself?
What’s your commitment to live above reproach like Job? Maybe you don’t struggle with lust. We all have at least one holdover from our former life. What’s yours? What will you do about it?
Action Step: Challenge yourself to make a commitment to live holy in a weakness you have. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you keep it.
Holy Spirit, help me live above reproach in this area of my life. I surrender it to You. I will obey You when You speak to me about it. Protect me from the temptations that surround me.
