8If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.9And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell. (Matthew 18:8,9)
Thoughts: Jesus was saying to value eternal things over temporary things. Jesus certainly valued the physical. He created it, He healed many of their physical hurts. But He knew that temporary lust or sin - going places where we should not go (with our feet), or seeing things we ought not to see (lust)- should not damage our eternal soul. He also knew that we have a tendency to value what we see over what we cannot see. Love- love for God as well as neighbor (in the purest sense)- should not be undervalued. Value your relationship with God for that relationship effects your eternity. Value what you do with your feet and eyes because that effects your relationship with others, with God, and with yourself.
Prayer: Lord, whereas the world says there is no cost to sin, remind me to value you for your sake as well as mine and my neighbors.
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