Eye Power Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Eye Power------------------------- Date: 11/9/2001 Keywords: "body" "darkness" "eye" "light" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Matthew 6:22-23* (Jesus speaking to his disciples) 22. "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. 23. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! Question Are your eyes entryways or exits?   Practical help Porn images lead to porn thoughts. Or is it the other way around? In the passage above, Jesus states that the eye is the mind's gatekeeper, regulating the flow of holy or profane thoughts — light or darkness, to use his metaphor. But this flow isn't inward-bound. Unlike the eye's more commonly known function of delivering external sights to the mind, this organ's moral role is exactly the opposite. Namely, to interpret the external world the way the mind wants, to seek out images that conform to what the mind is already thinking. Porn thoughts lead to porn images, in other words. No wonder Jesus elsewhere said: For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man "unclean" (Matthew 15:19-20a*). This is good news for porn strugglers. The solution to smut isn't the disappearance of the porn industry and all its wares. The fix is in your thoughts. Here's more good news. You don't have to rely on your strength to fix your thoughts. God gives this strength as a free gift. Click here to learn how to receive it. Thus begins an incredible adventure of watching your thoughts transform and renew. Now there's something for your eyes to see.  eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2001 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version, © Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.