"Be careful little eyes what you see,
be careful little eyes what you see,
there's a Father up above
and He's looking down in love,
so be careful little eyes what you see
... on the TV"
And on Facebook
and on your phone
and in your books
and on the streets
and in the shops
and really everywhere and anywhere your eyes can turn.
Because if your eyes are windows to your souls than what the eye sees, the soul sees.
And what the soul sees, the soul remembers.
And what the soul remembers, is what the soul knows.
And there are times when even the most devoted of followers fall asleep, fall off there guard.
In Gethsemane, Jesus had to wake His closest friends and warn them to keep watch, so that they would not sin, because "the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
His own friends, people who had travelled with Him for three years, who knew His life and were in His secrets, who wanted to follow Him to the end had to be reminded to stay on their guards.
In this time when porn is so easily available to everyone, even those who don't want to see it, how do we keep our eyes from seeing and our souls from knowing sexual immorality?
In this age when bullies are almost celebrated on our TV shows, how are we to keep our eyes from seeing and our souls from knowing abuse?
Our eyes are inundated with so many sins, from the little to the big, no matter where we go, no matter how hard we try not to see.
So what does a girl do?
Does she literally remove her eyes as Jesus once suggested in a speech designed to underline the seriousness of sin?
Hardly. If her eyes were removed, she'd become more aware of the sins coming in through her ears.
If she then proceeded to strike off her ears, they would come in through her sense of touch, her sense of smell, her sense of taste.
And if, somehow, she managed to remove each and every sense, her minds would still create sins for her.
There is no escape.
The only thing removing her senses would really accomplish is removing our ability to truly and fully appreciate the beautiful gifts God gives her through them.
So what does a girl do when she's scrolling down her newsfeed, and something pops up she doesn't want her soul to see? Doesn't want her soul to know?
She runs.
She hides.
She fixes her thoughts on what is noble, on what is good and what is true. She fills her eyes with the Word of God, because that is the only way for her soul to truly know God.
But it is hard. It is so very hard to scroll by that thing on Facebook. Sometimes, it almost doesn't work and the only thing that protects me is the Love of God, working to prevent my eyes from seeing what my soul should not know.
It is so extremely hard to unfriend that person whose posts are always so unhelpful... in fact, I've never been able to do so yet... and only God protects my eyes from seeing them.
It's hard, because the world tells me that the Ugly is beautiful, and the Beautiful is ugly. And sometimes, sometimes, I wonder, perhaps the world is right... if only I could see for myself... then I would know for sure.
And God has to remind me, that what the eye sees, the soul knows.
He has to remind me that He truly is the source of all Beauty and that anything He doesn't want me seeing is not fit for my soul to know, because He loves me.
And every day it is a struggle, and the only way to weed out the Ugly that my eyes see, is to fill them with the Beautiful.
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