FAITH CAPSULE: Do not expose your heart to the ways of self-destruction.
2 Samuel 11
Without doubt, whatever eyes of man consume on is what the heart lives on.
A man that begins to set eyes wrong before God is set to become corrupted before God.
What do you set eyes on as consumption for the heart?
David, a man after God’s own heart lost control of his heart when he could not keep his heart with all diligence but consumed what is wrong before God.
The Bible documents David’s wrongdoing, “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?” (2 Samuel 11:1-3)
David was at the right place but at the wrong time when he SAW and BEHELD a beautiful woman bathing.
What are you beholding wrongly?
David could not keep his heart with all diligent, he failed to rebuke wrongdoing before his eyes.
What are your eyes consuming for your heart?
David responded to his eyes while his heart acted, “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) David’s engagement with wrongdoing was a sin before God.
David’s eye fed his heart with wrongdoing was extended to the killing of Uriah and took over his wife Bathsheba.
David’s wrongdoing could not hide from God but his wrongdoing displeased the Lord.
Take control of the things that you see, do not expose your heart to the ways of self-destruction. Keep your eyes clean 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!”
What do you set eyes on as consumption for the heart?
A heart that is kept diligently 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 they will see God.
Prayer for today: Ask God for a heart that is diligent before Him.