When God looked down at His “servant Job,” His evaluation of this man was that he was “a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil” (Job 1:8). Job wasn’t perfect. But he cared deeply about the ways of God and walking faithfully with Him. As such, this man proclaimed, “I have made a covenant with my eyes; Why then should I look upon a young woman?” (Job 31:1).
Have you made a covenant with your eyes? Have you set forth a contract with your eyes about what you will and will not gaze upon? Have you established the boundaries, and have you given guidance to your eyes as to what to do when something inappropriate in the eyes of God appears before your own eyes? Have you determined consequences for violating that covenant?
Your heart, which sets the direction of your life (Prov. 4:23), needs to control “where” your eyes look and “how” they look and “how long” they look (Matt. 5:28; Psa. 101:3), so that your mind and your body do not sin against your God (Matt. 6:22-23; Gen. 39:9; Psa. 51:4). Imagine God saying about you what He said about Job!
