Let Your Eyes Delight In My Ways

Proverbs 23:26 “Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes delight in my ways.” I only have so much attention to give. When I complain about this or that, is it because I am listening to God? When I am offended is it because I am watching God? Every moment of complaint could be a moment of praise; my eyes are to be fixed on Christ. Complaining about the condition of the world is not fellowship, not with God, and not with one another.

In Isaiah 33 we are told that the one who walks righteously stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil, and that this one will be secure in the Lord. Do we think God is telling us to bury our head in the sand? No. The chapter goes on to declare that as we fix our eyes on Christ, His kingdom and His church, then we will see and hear by the Spirit and by that Spirit we will think with God.

God is not complaining about the world. He is working to save those who will be saved, and He is waiting to judge those who will be judged. We work and wait together with Him. Are my eyes delighting in His ways? When they do my mouth speaks from that delight. Is the light of God directing my vision? When that is true then whatever that light illuminates, good or evil, my thoughts are of salvation and deliverance, security and hope, satisfaction with God’s judgment and no need for my own.

If I am to think of that which is true and honorable and right, then I must let the Spirit lead me to those things and I must consider them; I must be paying attention to those things. I will see all that I need to see in this world as I am looking to what the Spirit is showing me moment by moment. There will be communion unto praise in that fellowship, and when I meet you, my words will bring you life.