A prayer for a new focus by Emily Rose Massey, read by Liam Arton.

Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things and give me life in your ways.

Psalm 11937.

I saw a sign the other day that said, I saw it, I liked it, I bought it, now

hide it. You know, it's often a joke among women that we hide our Amazon

prime packages or shopping bags from our husbands like it's a secret behavior

that all women do that's normal. But sister, this is so wrong and quite frankly

it's a sin. How can we be in unity with our spouse if we're literally hiding

something from them? How do we make jokes about that? We need to call it what it is

and admit we have a problem. This behavior is materialistic and can often be

rooted in covetousness and it's not a joking matter to God. This saying isn't

cute and it should reveal to us the matter of our heart. It seems where our eyes

wander our heart follows and can become fixated upon whatever has our gaze. We

need to readjust our focus. If we're not able to overcome the

temptation, we need the Lord's help, especially if we're continually tempted by

material possessions and given to hiding our addiction to more stuff. Do you

wrestle with impulsively buying things you don't need? I do, big time. But I've

been convicted of this sin and I don't want to grieve God or my husband with

this widely accepted behavior in our society. There's a verse in Psalms that's a

cry to the Lord for helping turn our focus away from temporal things that don't

matter. Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things and give me life in your

ways. Psalm 1937. We find life in God's ways, not in the world's ways of

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