Yes, make a covenant with your eyes,
Not to furtively look at a maid.
Because your eyes affect your heart,
Keeping your heart with all diligence,
Is the way of life.
A life dipped in grace.
The first glance is overly enough.
A second glance is covertly dangerous.
The second glance often becomes a gaze.
When you avoid the gaze,
You demonstrate grace.
The abundant grace of God.
Praying is a spiritual exercise.
Fasting also a spiritual discipline.
Waiting till the fullness of time,
Being cautious of boundaries not to cross,
Are spiritual trainings in purity.
Yes, only the pure will see God.
- Job 311– I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
- Lam. 351 – Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
- Prov. 423– Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
- Prov. 425– Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
- Rm. 513 – For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
- Prov. 2528 – He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
- Matt. 527– Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Ven. Olusegun Onafeso (CRM)