A Covenant With My Eyes…

Nowadays anything goes, especially when it comes to sexual behavior. What people don’t understand is that God designed the human body for sex. He made it pleasurable, but also purposeful. Because God made the human body it should be treated as sacred. Doesn’t the Bible tell us it’s the temple of the Holy Spirit? Here in the book of Job, we read of Job stating his innocence. His three friends have grilled him about confessing his sin. Job declares that he hasn’t done the things his friends are accusing him of doing. Job covers quite a bit of behaviors, but I want to address this one, lust. You can lust after many things, money, fame, power, etc..., but here he’s talking about sex. When it comes to lust and sex there’s no faster way to destroy your body and mind than by giving into lustful desires. Today in America this is seen as healthy, a basic human right, and if you don’t see it this way, you are a bigot or hater. Just because God gives us the freedom of choice, doesn’t mean we have to abuse that choice. Look at it this way, the anatomy of the human body was “designed” for sex to be a certain way, yet people have taken it far beyond that “design”, to the point of destroying the body. Some parts of the body were never meant to be used that way. Cancers, viruses, and diseases happen strictly from abuse of that particular body part. Eventually it stops working normally. Look at it this way: if an alcoholic abuses his liver to the point of it failing, do people cheer him on, telling him to continue to do it? Or maybe a smoker, do we encourage him to continue to light up? Or a drug addict, do we throw him a parade celebrating his destructive behavior? Then why do we celebrate lustful sexual acts? Why do we support sexual behavior that is not only detrimental to the person himself, but also to the other participant? Not to mention the promotion of it to our children in schools and society as a whole. Would you promote alcoholism because it temporarily relieves anguish in a person and makes them “feel good”? Lust is like fire, it will eventually destroy everything in its path. It will wipe out everything dear to you. Job knew this. He stated it at the beginning of this chapter. He knew God. He knew sexual behavior was sacred. He knew lust was like fire. He acted upon what he knew to be true, and not on what “feels” good. God created sex, and said it was good. We need to start treating like it is sacred, participate and enjoy its pleasures while staying within its design. When we live within the parameters of God’s creation, we never have to worry about fire getting out of control, and all the mental gymnastics that go along with trying to put it out.

1 “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look with lust at a young woman. Job 31:1

11 For lust is a shameful sin, a crime that should be punished.12 It is a fire that burns all the way to hell. It would wipe out everything I own. Job 31:11-12