Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

Job, chapter 31, verses 1 and 2, I have made a covenant with my eyes.

How then can I gaze at a virgin? What would be my portion from God above and my heritage from the

Almighty on high? This is one of the more well-known phrases from the book of Job as Job is

throughout this chapter and really the chapters before this, defending his integrity,

saying how he has sought to live righteously and wholly before God.

And specifically in Job 31, verse 1, he says, I have made a covenant with my eyes. What a phrase.

Like I have made a commitment before God, a covenant like a marriage commitment before God

with my eyes that what I see, what I choose to look upon will be pure and holy and righteous.

This is a really great phrase to lodge away in our hearts and minds

that we would be holy and righteous and pleasing to God with what we see,

with what we gaze upon, with where we fix our attention. Obviously Jesus says it was just reading

last night, again, the 10 commandments and God's clear commands against things like adultery

and lying and stealing. But then Jesus commands in Matthew chapter 5, that if you look at someone

lustfully, then you have already committed adultery in your heart if you have a angry thought

towards someone, then you have already committed murder against them in your heart. Like the importance

of what we do with our thoughts and our desires before God cannot must not be underestimated.

And so I want to lead us to pray that God would be pleased with our eyes today,

that God would be pleased with the desires of our hearts, with our thoughts, with what we fix

our attention on, what we look at and see and linger upon. God to help us, we pray.

To live with holiness and righteousness today in all our ways and all our thoughts,

the things that nobody else sees and even the things that we are tempted to gloss over as if

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