Watch your eyes! "I made a
covenant with my
eyes." Job 31:1. Much sin comes in by the eye.
First Eve saw that the tree was good for food,
and pleasant to the eyes—then she took and ate
it! First she looked—and then she lusted.
The
eye, by beholding an impure object, sets the heart
on fire. The devil often creeps in, at the window
of the eye! Watch your eyes!
Watch your ears! Much poison is conveyed through
the ear. Let your ear be open to God—and shut to sin!
Watch your hearts! "The human heart is most
deceitful and desperately wicked." Jeremiah 17:9.
Watch your heart when you are about holy things—it
will be slipping out to vanity. When
Christ had been
praying and fasting, the
devil tempted Him. Mt. 4:3.
After combating with Satan in prayer,
we are apt to
grow secure and take our spiritual armor off—and
then
the devil falls on us and wounds us!
Watch your hearts when you are in bad company.
The
breath of the wicked is infectious. Nay, watch
your
hearts when you are in good company. The
devil is
subtle, and he can as well creep into the
dove—as
he did once into the serpent. Satan
tempted Christ
by an apostle.
Watch your hearts in prosperity. Now you are in
danger of pride! The higher men's estates rise—the
higher their hearts are lifted up in pride. It is hard
to carry a full cup without spilling. Just so, it is hard
to carry a full, prosperous estate without sinning.
As Samson fell asleep in Delilah's lap—so many
have fallen so fast asleep in the lap of prosperity,
that they never awoke until they awoke in hell!
Oh, if you would get to heaven,
be
always upon your
watch-tower! Keep close sentinel in your
souls. Who
would not watch—when it is for a glorious kingdom!