Consecrated Eyes {a devotional}
The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness. Proverbs 15:14.
Many
do not earnestly seek to understand the lessons found in God’s Word.
They lay aside the Bible, and allow their minds to become engrossed with
the cheap reading found in books of fiction, newspapers, and magazines.
The
pernicious practice of story reading is one of the means employed by
Satan to destroy souls. The mind that is occupied with exciting stories
loses all relish for solid reading.... I am acquainted with many sad
examples of the evil effects of this baneful practice.... The more they
indulged the appetite for this kind of mental food, the greater was the
demand. The imagination constantly craved its accustomed stimulus, as
the inebriate longs for his wine or tobacco. Their mental and moral
powers were weakened and perverted. They lost their interest in the
Scriptures, and their relish for prayer; and they were as truly ruined,
mentally and spiritually, as is the liquor drinker or the tobacco
devotee. Novel readers are mental inebriates; and they need to sign a
pledge of total abstinence as verily as does the victim of any other
form of intemperance.
God
has given to His people the choicest reading matter. Let the Word of
God find a place in every room in the house. Keep the Bible, the bread
of life, in plain sight.... Keep choice, elevating literature ever
before the members of the family.
The
reading of God’s Word will not fascinate the imagination and inflame
the passions, like a fictitious storybook, but softens, soothes,
elevates, and sanctifies the heart.
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