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Purify Your Mind Series (Part 1) by Joe KirbySample

Purify Your Mind Series (Part 1) by Joe Kirby

DAY 25 OF 31

Abundantly Adulterous Eyes

I wonder—what goes through your mind when someone attractive walks past you? Where do your eyes move to? Are you disciplined in that moment, or do you lack self-control?

In Second Peter, the apostle describes false teachers who, like Olympic athletes, have trained themselves to scan every woman who walks by and engage in lustful fantasy. Their eyes are “full of adultery” (the literal meaning is “beyond quantity”); in other words, all these men see is sex. It’s what they think about while eating and working; it’s their first thought in the morning and their last at night. They are greedy individuals in general, but their greatest greed isn’t for money or possessions, but for someone else’s wife.

The reality is, every day something tempting catches our eyes, whether it’s on our smartphone, in the street, or even at church! But do you look away? These false teachers didn’t. They may have claimed they were unable to stop, but they festered on what they saw and invited it into their imagination. However, the true believer should learn to obey the voice of the Holy Spirit. If the eyes and heart can be trained to be instruments of lust, can we not reverse that and train them to be instruments of righteousness?

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Purify Your Mind Series (Part 1) by Joe Kirby

This 31-Day Devotional is for believers wrestling with impure thoughts who desire to have their minds cleansed and refocused on Christ. If you struggle with impure thoughts, pornography, or lust, this devotional will help you replace those mental images with Christ-centered ones and develop new habits in your thinking. Let Jesus free you as you cultivate purity one thought at a time.

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