Scientists and doctors tell us that our eyes are vulnerable to damage and premature aging from repeated exposure to unfiltered sunlight. Thankfully researchers are finding measures that can be taken to prevent this from happening. Our spiritual eyes are also subject to harmful effects from evil things that can be seen in movies, in magazines, on the internet, on television and many other places.

It has been said that our eyes are "our window to the world." As a result the eyes are often the means for the evil of the world to enter and corrupt the life. Even believers can become afflicted with this eye disease, often resulting in much damage and destruction not only to themselves and their families, but especially to the Name of the Lord Jesus.

Early in the history of our first parents we learn of the "lust of the eyes" (1 John 2:16), when Eve looked on the forbidden tree and found it to be "pleasant to the eyes" (Genesis 3:6). Later we read of Potiphar's wife casting "her eyes upon Joseph" which led her to say to him, "Lie with me" (Genesis 39:7). Peter describes such people as "having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin" (2 Peter 2:14). No one (man or woman) living in this present evil world is exempt from these evil temptations, but thankfully there are measures that can be taken to filter them out and to prevent them from causing damage to our heart and life and soul. A little research in the Scriptures has produced the following prescriptions for our eyes to be read daily:

Psalm 119:37; Job 31:1; Psalm 101:3; Matthew 5:28,29; Psalm 119:18.

What we look at has a profound effect upon what we are. "Mine eye affecteth my heart" (Lamentations 3:51). Job said, "My heart walked after my eyes" (31:7). God says, "My son, give Me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe My ways (Proverbs 23:26,27).