FAITH CAPSULE: Whatever your eyes feed on, your heart will live on.

Judges 14

Jesus was teaching the multitude when He stated, “Blessed are the pure in the heart, for they shall see God.” (Matthew 5:8) By virtue of the word of God, it is safe to say that one of the highways to heaven is keeping your heart from evil. The book of Proverbs talks about how to keep heart from evil, “Keep your heart with all diligence for out of it spring the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23) A heart that is kept with diligence 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 is one who is undiminished in having and living the life of Christ. Living life honestly by the word of God and not living life deceitfully is turning back to God for a pure heart. The pure in the heart are not wicked and they will see God. Taking control of the things that you expose yourself to is one the ways that you can engage to keep your heart pure. Jesus called the eye the lamp of the body in Matthew 6:2, “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!” Whatever your eyes feed on, your heart live on. For a heart to be well kept you need keep your eyes away from activities that could pollute the heart and keep it from being pure. What you see determines what your heart receives. What you receive then determines what you become. Why not take control of your eyes by constantly redirecting it to what is good? Every challenge in the life of Samson started when he saw a woman. The Bible recoded in Judges 14:1-3, “Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. So he went up and told his father and mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore, get her for me as a wife.” Then his father and mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your brethren, or among all my people, that you must go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” And Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.” In the seeing of Samson, disobedience came from his heart against the parents. When disobedience takes root in the heart, purity is erased from the heart. Position your self for blessing and not pollute your eye with bad.

Prayer for today: Ask God to keep you and enable you to hear and see good things in your ways.