I have got a gate at home that has driven me nuts until recently!
It never seemed to work that well. Either it was stuck open or stuck closed.
It was so hard to move as it stuck to the concrete path
underneath, that we never wanted to use it.
It was hardly what you would call functional…

Then someone came round and changed the hinges and now it is free moving. It works perfectly, so much so that you end up taking it for granted.

The other night a large group of guys went bowling.
Down the end of the alleys is a large white wall where they
project images on. Things like sports or the perennial favourite at places like this...music videos.
Now if you have seen any music video clips lately, you would see that quite a lot of them are pretty big on showing people dancing around ‘bumping and grinding’.
So here we are a bunch of guys trying to be good little
Christian’s being inflicted with all that flesh as we tried to bowl.
Some even tried to blame the video’s on their poor bowling…

So why am sharing those two things?

Well it got me thinking about a little phrase I have heard a lot over the years…
“That the eyes are the gateway to your soul” (Luke11:34)

Jesus one day was talking to his disciples and he mentioned things like lamps and eyes and how important they are.
The whole idea that our eyes are a gateway into our life.
That they are like my gate at home.
That they can be taken for granted when they work.
That they control what we let into our lives.
That they can show others what is really in our soul, or what is really in my backyard...

Can I encourage you this week to think about what you let your eyes see? To think about whether what you see will help you or cause you pain?

Hebrews 12:2 says
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus