A Covenant With Your Eyes

Job, defending the integrity of his life, points to a decision he made long before temptation arrived. He says, "I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a young woman?" He had settled the matter in advance, before a particular face or image ever tested him.

For a single man, this is worth sitting with. You are not married yet, and it can feel as though purity is a rule without a reason, a waiting with no one on the other side. Job shows a different picture, a man who guards his eyes even with no wife watching, because he has decided who he wants to be before God. Every woman you look at is someone's daughter and possibly someone's future wife, made in God's image and owed honor rather than consumption.

The habits you form now, alone, are the ones you will carry into a marriage that may still be years away. Make the covenant Job made. Ask God to help you keep it, to give you a way of seeing women that honors them and honors him, so that the man you are becoming is one worth trusting.