Guard Your Heart

“If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.”

~Matthew 5:29-30

Modern technology has brought some marvelous innovations. In addition to advances in medicine and healthier living, it has brought us closer together. When I was a child, we never imagined being able to video chat with my grandmother the way I can with my grandchildren now. We have information from across the world at the click of a mouse or the touch of a screen twenty-four hours a day, but we also have the corruption that comes with it. There is nothing meant for good that the devil doesn’t use to corrupt.

“Incline my heart to Your testimonies, and not to selfish gain! Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in Your ways (Psalm 119:36-37.”

What we watch and listen to may seem harmless, but it isn’t. Whatever comes in through our senses, goes to our hearts. We can’t unsee or unhear anything, and the more that we allow in, the tighter the grip it has. We guard our hearts and mind by guarding what we see and hear.

“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect (Romans 12:1-2).”

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