February 17: Blind Your Right Eye

Affirmation: I enjoy being creative. 

Each of us is created in God’s image. God is creative, therefore you are creative. Look around you at each individual person, then look at the beautiful vegetation and incredible animals in our world. God is creative beyond my comprehension. You are creative.❤️
Make it a point to do something creative today or in the next few days…cook, bake, build, paint, draw, write, sing, dance…

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Ponder, Personalize, Practice: Recite Zephaniah 3:17. Practice this verse in your self-talk. Remind yourself that God is with you. He delights in you. He loves you & chooses not to rebuke you. He sings over you with joy.

Zephaniah 3:17 

“The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.” 

https://youtu.be/qZzgeUJXmCM?si=xU3TMJ6w0NWk-dG4
Tommy Walker. We Will Remember 

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Praying the Message of Jesus: A Year of Thoughts and Prayers

by Eugene Peterson

                        Feb 17

Blind Your Right Eye

"You know the next commandment pretty well, too: 'Don't go to bed with another's spouse.' But don't think you've preserved your virtue simply by staying out of bed. Your heart can be corrupted by lust even quicker than your body. Those leering looks you think nobody notices -they also corrupt. Let's not pretend this is easier than it really is. If you want to live a morally pure life, here's what you have to do: You have to blind your right eye the moment you catch it in a lustful leer. You have to choose to live one-eyed or else be dumped on a moral trash pile. And you have to chop off your right hand the moment you notice it raised threateningly. Better a bloody stump than your entire being discarded for good in the dump."

MATTHEW 5:27-30 

No spirit surgery is too costly and no self-discipline too exacting in our development as Christ's servants. Our sin-split personalities think one thing and do another, or do one thing and think another. Jesus trains us in a mastery over self that brings us into single-minded devotion. 

 

Compare this with 2 Corinthians 10:3-6.

 

Help me, Oh Christ, to maintain a ruthless mastery over my pride and self­ centeredness so that every part of my life may be coordinated in acts of love. Amen.