Why do we change our screen covers? Have you ever thought about that? Whether it be on your phone or your computer desktop, many of us update and replace the images on a regular basis.
I’m one of the them.
And I’ll be the first to tell you why… I change my screen covers because it evokes an emotion. In fact, on my computer, I have a wallpaper app that lets me browse through all kinds of images until I find one I like– or should I say, until I find one that makes my heart smile. It’s the same with my phone too, with one small difference. On my computer, I tend to look for nature scenes (anything that reminds me of the beauty of our world), whereas my phone is predominantly pics of my grandkids.
But what they have in common is still the same, the pictures make my heart smile.
And the reason I’m telling you this is because it’s important to pay attention to what you put before your eyes. In fact, one of my favorite scriptures is Psalm 27:13, which says, “I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”
Sometimes you’ve got to see by faith before you ever see in the natural.
Of course, putting pictures of my grandkids on my phone isn’t really “faith” in action, but it is a reminder of God’s faithfulness. And the same is true with the night sky, or a field of wheat, or a picture of rain falling softly on a lake that fills up my computer screen. They all remind me of God’s faithfulness.
So if this is true, what would happen to my heart if I didn’t pay attention to what I put before my eyes? The Book of Ecclesiastes is predominantly about that very thing. The writer was discouraged by all the evil he saw around him. And I’ll agree, it’s not hard to find something depressing if you just look. But is that what will strengthen and encourage us?
Of course not.
It’s not that I’m encouraging you to avoid or ignore the state of the world around you, but I challenge you to consider what kind of help (light) are you if you fill yourself with the same thing? WHAT IF you changed what you put before your eyes and it changed your outlook?
“The lamp of the body is the eye. If there your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!” (Matthew 6:22-23).
Can I just say it’s important? Apparently so. Jesus was clear: “The eye is the lamp of the body; so if your eye is clear [spiritually perceptive], your whole body will be full of light [benefiting from God’s precepts]. But if your eye is bad [spiritually blind], your whole body will be full of darkness [devoid of God’s precepts]. So if the [very] light inside you [your inner self, your heart, your conscience] is darkness, how great and terrible is that darkness” (Amplified).
The enemy knows the importance of what people put before their eyes. His desire is to dull you (your inner self). For when we become dull within, that’s when he has the best opportunity to introduce depression, anger, and other self-destructing evils.
So please pay attention to what you’re looking at. Make it your aim to find something that causes your heart to smile. The results will be amazing.
