Motivation For Men – Keeping It PureSample

“The Lamp” Our natural eyes are given to us to help us function and communicate in the natural world, but they have another purpose. to help us perceive the beauty and glory in the natural world that bear witness to the nature, character and purposes of God the Creator. We all know that natural eyes, if they are blinded or otherwise defective, can block or distort the light that is intended to guide us. This is true in the spiritual world as well. One way this happens is when, as Romans 1 explains, we exchange divine glory for natural glory, and things such as female beauty, affection and sexuality take on an exaggerated importance to us because they have been separated from other things which are supposed to be part of the male-female relationship, such as genuine love and covenant. Romans 1 goes on to explain how we can even be "given over" (essentially, addicted) to increasingly wicked behavior, because our "bad eye" has distorted our perspective. The way out is to reverse the exchange we have made through repentance, acknowledging God and making a conscious choice to value divine glory over natural glory. Only then will our "bad eyes" become "good eyes" again, allowing our bodies to be filled with light instead of darkness.