You know those magazines that have celeb pics all over them, cover to cover? I actually used to have a subscription to one of them a couple of years ago. I know, right? I am revealing my dorkiness as you read;) But I used to really enjoy checkin' out pics of what's new in fashion, see what was going on in the world, etc. But for some reason, and this is just me personally... I got a conviction about not only reading those, but for actually paying for something like that.
At first look, it seems really harmless, right? I mean, what's the big deal? But then you think, well, somebody makes their living following people around, getting their juicy details, taking pics of them while they're just trying to go grocery shopping, etc. And a lot of the pics, especially in the summer time, are comparing so and so's body to this other so and so... God's Word tells us not to compare ourselves to one another. And when you look at those pics, you compare yourself, right? Or there may be pics of the opposite sex that your eyes come across, and we know that whatever we allow our eyes to get used to, we will soon get used to looking at, and perhaps even, want to be skimming our eyes over those kinds of pics... And we all know what the bible says about the eyes. "The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! No one can serve two masters..."Matt. 6:22-24 And then you go even deeper and think, well, is this really what I am putting not only my money to, but also spending my time and eyes looking at? Our eyes are so precious.
So yeah, I've stopped with the celeb magazines. Big deal. There are always things we can do to make ourselves a holier temple than the day before. It's a process for all of us as we try to be more like Jesus really would be if he was physically walking around with us, living in here today, in this century. So we just need to make sure we're headed in the right direction every day. It's one way or the other- light or dark. No in between's. No kinda sorta's. And we often justify what's right in our own eyes, right? I do. I tell ya, I fail so often. We've just gotta remember that we are not wise or right. It's God's Word that lends the wisdom.
And it's either light or darkness.
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
who put darkness for light and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
and shrewd in their own sight!
...Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so their root will be as rottenness,
and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 5:20-24
In love, Tara K
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