[The adulteress’] house is the way to hell, descending to the chambers of death.
Proverbs 7:27
Recommended Reading: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
In the Old Testament, a covenant was entered into as a guarantee of future benefits and protection. Consider the covenant Job made: “I have made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I look upon a young woman?” (Job 31:1) That was a man speaking, but the same gender-neutral idea is in Psalm 119:37: “Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, and revive me in Your way.” The time to make a covenant with your eyes is in a time of reflection and sober commitment.
The father in Proverbs warned his son to consider the danger and damage associated with yielding to sexual temptation (Proverbs 7:1-27). As parents tell their children about all of life, an important lesson they might share is that it’s easier to stay out of trouble than it is to get out of trouble. And the way to avoid the trouble that comes with sexual immorality is to make a covenant with God not to go there. And a covenant with your eyes, in our visual world, is a good place to begin.
Commit your eyes to God in prayer, that they may look upon and desire only that which is good and godly.
No sinful act desecrates the body like fornication and sexual abuse.
R. C. H. Lenski
Read-Thru-the-Bible: Genesis 29 – 31