582. "I Made A Covenant With My Eyes!" by Ted Gibbons, in Meridian Magazine. Watching what we allow our eyes to dwell on!
This gives us new thoughts as to what we allow our eyes to see. Good thoughts! I Made a Covenant with Mine Eyes By Ted Gibbons · January 5, 2016 No Wicked Thing “I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes . . . it shall not cleave to me” (Psalms 101:3). I found this verse one day as I read and pondered the book of Psalms. I read it again and again while I reflected on the young men and women I work with in my church calling who are struggling with the curse of pornography. David wrote Psalm 101, almost certainly in the years after his encounter with Bathsheba, when a walk on the roof and an inadvertent glance allowed his eyes to rest and remain where they ought not to have rested. David’s Eyes and Job’s Eyes David knew as well as anyone the consuming calamity that can come when we settle our eyes in places that can nurture wickedness. He wrote of his resolve as he looked back through the magnifying lens of experience, “I will set no wicked thing b