Leslie M. Grant · Defeated or Delighted?

5. Yield your members as instruments of righteousness to God (Rom. 6:13). To yield ourselves is the first thing and this should be done once for all. But members speak of the details of our life: our mind (what we think), our eyes (what we see), our ears (whatwe hear), our lips (what we say), our hands (what we do), our feet (where we go), etc. The first three of these are passive, but they are basic to all that comes from us. "Set your affection (mind) on things above" (Col. 3:2), where our life is. If our thoughts are on profitable things (Phil. 4:8) this will greatly influence our actions. As to seeing and hearing, we must constantly be on our guard. Lot, in seeing and hearing, was vexed in his soul from day to day by the filthy conversation of the wicked (2 Pet. 2:7-8). If we make provision for the flesh (the sinful nature) in the way he did, by friendship with the ungodly, or even by radio or television bringing evil conversation into our homes, we cannot but be affected by it. Let our eyes behold rather the purely satisfying beauty of the Lord Jesus, and let our ears drink in His precious Word.