Daily Devotion

January 31, 2006

(Psa 119:37)  Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

It seems factual that the continual watching of ungodly sights and sounds numbs our senses to their evil.  Its almost like we train ourselves to be comfortable with these things, fighting against the God-given Holy Spirit in us, Who through our conscience, would normally reject them.

How sad, how pitiful, how pathetic it is when we vex, defile, abuse and torture the Spirit of God in us through the deliberate subjection to sights and sounds of worldly vanities.  It must add to the LORD’s sorrow when He sees our senses eventually so numb that not only we cannot recognized good from bad and right from wrong anymore, but our conscience is so seared (1 Tim 4:2), so numb, that we cannot recognize the voice of His Spirit anymore.  Ultimately, we do not even feel Him when he is grieved within us.

Let us, like King David in this Word, honestly, sincerely and without reservations, ask the LORD to “turn away” our eyes (as it seems we cannot do it ourselves) from beholding and loathing at the prideful and vain sights and sounds of the world, so He can “quicken” us (Quicken:  to make alive.)  O how those worldly vanities sap the strength and spirit out of us so we become soul-less, spirit-less humanoids, living-dead zombies, easily reachable to be used by Satan”!  

Psa 25:15  Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

Psa 101:3  I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.