Lustful Looks

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Title: Lustful Looks --------------------------------------- Date: 2/10/2000
Keywords:   "faith" "lust" "sight"

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Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation.

Passage: Job 31:1-4*

1. "I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl.

2. For what is man's lot from God above, his heritage from the Almighty on high?

3. Is it not ruin for the wicked, disaster for those who do wrong?

4. Does he not see my ways and count my every step?"

Questions

1. What rationale does Job give for his anti-lust policy?

 

2. How might this logic help us avoid our temptations?

 

Practical help

So it's not a new passage. Job's pro-purity promise probably sounds familiar to you. But notice he doesn't stop there; he gives a reason for his hard-line stance

And it's a spooky reason: The Almighty sees.

In "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald uses a famous image of an all-seeing yet distant deity: the giant eyes of optometrist T.J. Eckleburg peering out of a Long Island billboard. The unblinking gaze unnerves even the post-Christian narrator of Fitzgerald's novel.

Yet how often do Christians, who believe in an all-seeing yet immanent God, tune him out? Maybe we'd do better taping a pair of eyes to our computer monitors. If faith can't convince us not to log onto that porn Web site, perhaps sight will.

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