I was reading in Psalm 101 and verse 2 stuck out to me. It says, “I will walk within my house in the integrity of my heart.” What an amazing thing! This means walking with the Lord and being righteous even when you are alone. It is easy when you are around people to look or act like the type of Christian you know you ought to be; but when you are in the comforts of your own home you let yourself go. It is easy to let your mind wander to unprofitable things. It is easy to let down your guard and watch, read, or even do things you would never do around other people.
The next verse, verse 3, says “I will set no worthless thing before my eyes.” This could mean any number of things. It could mean books, movies, TV shows, things on the internet; whatever it may be it must NOT have leeway in your life. When you allow something worthless to set before your eyes you are allowing your brain to take that thing in. Your brain wonders “how would that feel,” “What would that be like,” “what does that taste like?” or any number of other things. When something is set before your eyes your heart is being fed from it; whether, it is good and profitable or junk and worthless. Therefore, when worthless things are set before you, your heart is turned towards those things. It is harder to walk in integrity of heart anywhere, especially in your home.
With this in mind let us strive to walk in integrity of heart in our homes. To do this we must nurture our relationship with God and take care of it. We must cast out anything that will be a stumbling block, no matter how drastic we have to be we MUST get rid of it! Christ says “If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; it is better for you to lose on part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell.” (Matt 5:29-30) May we see sin as we ought and have the desire and will power, through Christ, to get rid of it.
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