Day 7

¶ “You have heard that it was said,

YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY;

but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell."

 

Heard words?

Who you looking at lately and when you’re looking what are you thinking?

Are your eyes your problems or is it your heart?

 

Your heart and your mind work together to lead you into sin, if you cannot control your heart and mind you are better off losing your eyes, but even if you were to tear out your eyes if your heart and mind are corrupt you will still sin for your heart and mind can conger up thoughts and images, and in a corrupted mind you sin with your thoughts and that is what Jesus is getting at in this section of Matthew.

 

Your eyes are the windows to your heart and mind, what are you allowing in for your mind to think upon?

 

When we speak of Adultery the first thing most people think of is between a man and a woman, but is it not adultery when we put anything in our lives above or before Christ? What we put our minds to and our hands to if not for the glory of the Father and the Son is a form of adultery and should be cut from our lives, sense it stems from a heart situation are we to cut our hearts out?

No Christ is trying to get us to understand the depth and importance of having and living a life dedicated to Him and His ways.

 

Take thought of what you are allowing in to your eye and what you are putting your hands to do; for it is they who will lead you astray.