DON'T HURT TO LOOK! REALLY!!!

DON'T HURT TO LOOK!         REALLY!!!

Let Me educate you on two looks that will not only hurt you but will kill you. One look creates desire and the other look comes from desire. You look at what your heart desires, and your heart desires what you look at. It is perpetual emotional energy. You look because you desire and the more you look the more you desire until you are completely enslaved and quietly self destruct from within. May I  remind you of "Lot's wife who looked back and she became a pillar of salt." Genesis 19:26 (AMP) Lot's wife had a desire in her heart so strong, that it compelled her to commit suicide. Her head turned in the direction of her heart. Your eyes are like a compass, they always point in the direction of your heart.

Look #1

The stronger the temptation to look, the greater the desire to return. That's why "no one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back to the things behind is fit for the kingdom of God." Luke 9:62 (AMP) Oh you may convince others "with your mouth and honor Me with your lips, but I know your heart holds off and is far away from Me." Matthew 15:8 (AMP) It has nothing to do with your ability to plow, you may be the greatest plowman preacher in the world, but it's your heart problem that disqualifies you. The plowman may be lousy at plowing, but if he keeps plowing and loves plowing with all his heart, he will never look back. If you'd rather be doing something else, then do it, because your already looking back, and disqualified.

Look #2

When the lustful men on both sides of you say, "oh man! look at that!" it's a look that could end up killing you! Here is how serious it is, "Everyone who so much as looks at a woman with evil desire for her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Matthew 5:28 (AMP) This is where the heart may be pure and innocent and desire is born by looking. If this looking is not curbed, it will always create a stronger desire to look, until you become a slave to sexual desire.  This look will kill your conscience with an impure mind, it will kill your ability to love, with lust, it will kill your marriage with distrust, it will kill your family with lack of respect, and your career with lack of concentration. It will kill you spiritually and can kill you physically with disease.

How many looks can you afford? One evening David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house, and just once from there he saw a woman bathing; and she was very lovely to behold. [3] David sent and inquired about the woman" and from then on all hell broke loose in the kings life. 2 Samuel 11:2-3 (AMP) 

When the daughter of  Herodias came in, and danced one time, it pleased Herod and lust filled men that sat with him. As he looked he was so arroused, he said to the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee." Mark 6:22 (KJV) That one look at a sensual dancer cost John the Baptist his life. This look has great collateral damage, it never kills just the one looking. This look will make you "a creature of the flesh, carnal, unspiritual, having been sold into slavery under the control of sin. [15] and you will say, I do not understand my own actions I am baffled, bewildered. I do not practice or accomplish what I wish, but I do the very thing that I loathe, which my moral instinct condemns." Romans 7:14-15 (AMP) 

The next time you hear someone say, "it doesn't hurt to look" check which way they are looking and what they are looking at, before you agree! All backsliding begins with a look!