Guard Your Gates: Reflections on Offering Our Eyes to God

This powerful message invites us to consider our bodies as temples and our eyes as sacred gateways to our hearts. Drawing from Romans 12:1 and Matthew 6, we're challenged to present our bodies as living sacrifices, starting with what we allow through the gates of our eyes. The teaching reveals three crucial truths: our eyes expose our passions, enlighten our perception, and affect our priorities. Through biblical examples like Adam and Eve's temptation and Lot's fateful decision to settle near Sodom, we see how what we look at shapes our destiny. The message doesn't leave us in conviction alone but offers six practical eye exercises: look at God's wonders, lean on His wisdom, live from His Word, lock onto Jesus, look away from rivals, and long for God's future. These disciplines help us guard our hearts by guarding what enters through our eyes. The call is urgent yet hopeful—we can choose daily to fix our gaze on eternal things rather than temporary distractions, protecting not just our spiritual vision but the wellspring of life itself.