Get your focus on ... Your heart follows your eyes - Job 31

In previous devotionals on this chapter there was a large focus on the overall theme.   Job is venting or demonstrating to his friends his "self-discribed" righteousness.  Let's not quibble with him.   Let's let him have his "moment in the sun."  We know he is not righteous by God's standards, yet, in 1:8 God told us and Satan that Job was perfect.   So, before I critize the man I will believe His God.  And, although not our focus in this blog, maybe that statement should be a theme for us.  If God declared our brother and sister in Christ righteous, let's not stand back and try to point out all the little things that "make it look not so."   But, in 31:7 we have an interesting statement by Job.  He makes the point that "if" (again, justifying his action that he has never done this "if") his "heart" has followed his "eyes" than that would be sin.  I can't imagine ever tying to convince anyone, much less my friends, that my heart has "never" not followed my eyes.  That problem, to me, is my BIGGEST problem.   When engaged in my fight against the sin of gluttony this is, perhaps, the biggest downfall.  If my eyes don't see it I won't eat it.  But, if my eyes see it, I eat it ... all of it.  We should realize that the power of the eye to bring us down.   In 31:1 Job begins this praise of himself claiming he has made a covenant with his "eyes" not to look on a maid ... a women.   In Mattew 5:29 Christ tells us if our eye offends us, we should pluck it out.  Seems radical, until you realize the connection between our eyes and our heart.   In Genesis 3 it says of Eve, "when she saw the fruit ..."!!  When David "saw" Bathsheeba on the porch taking a bath he feel into lust.   When Peter saw the waves of the water he began to sink.   On the other hand when Isaiah saw the glory of God in Isaiah 6 he fell down and worshiped.  As did Moses with the burning bush and Ezekiel with the spinning wheel.  Don't mistake, our heart always follows our eyes.   So, get your focus on!!!