An Eye-turning Prayer Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: An Eye-turning Prayer -------------------------------------------- Date: 9/7/2000 Keywords: "eye" "revival" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Psalm 119:37* Turn away my eyes from looking at vanity, and revive me in Thy ways. Questions 1. In a psalm devoted to the praise of God's Word, the psalmist makes two requests in this verse. What are they?   2. What parallels do you see between "vanity" (literally "emptiness") and pornography?   Practical help Here the psalmist asks God to turn away his eyes from looking at things that have no true value. Was the writer thinking about wooden idols? That might have been the thought for an Old Testament Jew. For a man living in the year 2000, that prayer might be understood in the sense, "Lord, turn my eyes away from Internet porn!" The second line of the verse gives hope that when our eyes do turn away (God will do it, but we must cooperate with His work and not keep coming back to it!) we are positioning ourselves for a spiritual revival. This is the God-ordained order: First, cooperate with the work of God in turning away your eyes from smut, and then watch as revivalistic passion for Him is rekindled in your heart. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2000 by eXXit *"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."