Proverbs 4:25 Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids look straight before you. These words occur in a passage wherein the wise man exhorts us to take care of all parts of our nature, which he indicates by members of the body. Every part of our nature needs to be carefully watched, lest in any way it should become the cause of sin. Any one member or faculty is readily able to defile all the rest, and therefore every part must be guarded with care. Having eyes, use them; using them, take care to use them honestly. Some persons are always as if they were asleep. Others are somewhat awake mentally, but are not looking right on; they are star-gazing; they lead but a purposeless life. A man ought to have a way; it should be a straight way; and in that straight way he should persevere. The best way for a man is the way which God has made for him. When you are on the King's highway, you may go ahead without fear. I. LET CHRIST BE YOUR WAY. If He be, you will begin first to seek to have Christ. Then you will want to know Christ. Then you will go on to obey Christ. Then you will seek to be like Christ. II. SET YOUR EYES ON CHRIST AS YOUR WAY. Think of Him, consider Him, study Him. 1. That you may know the way of life, let your eyes be fixed on Him. 2. That you may follow Him well, follow Him wholly. Gather up all your faculties to go after the Lord. 3. Look alone to Jesus, and do this to keep your spirits up. Some live in retrospection; others in unhealthy introspection; and yet others carry much too far a sort of circumspection. If you begin to look two ways at a time, you will miss the Lord Jesus. Under the Jewish law no man who had a squint was allowed to be a priest. III. LET YOUR EYES DISTINCTLY AND DIRECTLY LOOK TO CHRIST ALONE. 1. Look not to any human guide. 2. Look to Christ for yourself. 3. Look not to any secondary aims. 4. Forget all things when seeing Christ. 5. Take care that you continue gazing upon Christ until you have faith in Him. ( C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.WEB: Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you. |
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