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lust of the eyes

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Posted on: 28th Aug 2014

Deuteronomy 11:18 (NKJV)

18 ï¿½Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

 

Reflections:

What we allow our eyes to see affects our very soul.

 

Someone  once wrote, �It is good to have Scripture as the frontlets of our eyes.� As you can see from our picture today it has a very literal meaning to the traditional Jew.

 

Frontlets: (Exodus13:16; 6:8; 11:18; Matthew 23:5) These "frontlets" or "phylacteries" were strips of parchment, on which were written four passages of Scripture, (Exodus 13:2-10,11-17; (Deut 6:4-9,13-23) in an ink prepared for the purpose. They were then rolled up in a case of black calfskin, which was attached to a stiffer piece of leather, having a thong one finger broad and one and a half cubits long. They were placed at the bend of the left arm. Those worn on the forehead were written on four strips of parchment, and put into four little cells within a square case on which the letter was written. The square had two thongs, on which Hebrew letters were inscrembed. (This was taken from �Smith�s Bible Dictionary).

 

The Lord told the Israelites to regard His Law, "for frontlets between their eyes," meaning foremost on their minds. 

For the true Christian God�s law is written on tablets of flesh (on our hearts). As we choose to meditate on God�s precepts the Holy Spirit brings them to our remembrance, just like the frontlets, warning us and attempting to keep us from making foolish sin-choices.

 

We are constantly waging war (or we should be) against the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life (1 John 2:16). Victory is all about making godly �frontlet� choices �

 

 

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