Job says he made a covenant with his eyes not to look with lust at a young woman. That might sound quaint until you recognize what he's really doing: he's taking responsibility for his interior life.
We're often trained to think about responsibility beginning with action. You're responsible for what you do. But Job locates responsibility earlier in the chain. At the point of looking, at the point where desire forms. He's made a commitment to guard his attention itself, to refuse to entertain lust even before it manifests in behavior.
This speaks to an age of infinite visual temptation in ways Job couldn't have imagined. We're assaulted constantly with images designed to awaken appetite. And many of us think responsibility begins only when we act on that appetite. Job suggests otherwise. He's saying the covenant, the choice about who you're going to be, begins with what you allow your eyes and mind to feed on. That's early work, harder work maybe, but foundational.
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