FAITH CAPSULE: Take control of the things you see not to become corrupted

2 Samuel 11

Take control of the things that you expose yourself to see.
Without a doubt, what eyes of man feed on the heart will live. 
One that sees negatively, the heart, shall become corrupted. 
What are you feeding your heart that is negative?
David, a man after the heart of God, lost control of his heart when he recklessly set on negativity.
2 Samuel 11:1-3 documents the reckless David, “It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold. So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”  
The eyes of David fed his heart when he saw and beheld a beautiful woman bathing. 
What are you beholding wrongly? 
David’s heart was not diligent enough to rebuke the negative presentation of the eyes. 
What are your eyes feeding your heart? 
David responds to his eyes as his heart by acting, “Then David sent messengers, and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house. And the woman conceived; so she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.” (2 Samuel 11:4-5) 
Indeed, David committed a crime before God when he eventually set up the death of Uriah, the husband of Bathsheba.
David fed his heart wrong with evil engagement. 
David was responsible for the killing of Uriah and took over his wife. 
David could not hide from God, but the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
Take control of the things you see, do not expose your heart to self-destruction. 
Keep your eyes clean to keep your heart pure. 
Jesus called the eye a lamp of the body. 
Matthew 6:2 records, “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!” 
What the eyes feed on, the heart lives on.
A diligent heart will be pure. 
To be pure in heart is to be righteous. 
To be righteous will identify a believer as one with integrity. 
A believer with integrity lives the life for God. 
The pure in the heart is not wicked and will see God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable your eyes and heart to keep on positive.