Our focus is not the newest product or latest fashion. A media-saturated society bombards us with advertising campaigns that might as well say, “Covet this!”Īll that glitters is not gold, and the child of God knows that fame, fortune, and finery quickly fade (Proverbs 23:5). Materialism beckons with its promise of happiness and fulfillment.
DEFINE EYE CANDY FULL
The world is full of “eye candy,” glamor, and gaudiness. We must follow Jesus’ example and, in the power of the Holy Spirit, resist the lust of the eyes. Of course, Jesus did not succumb to the lust of the eyes, and Satan was defeated (verses 10 and 11). He then promised to give them to Jesus-for a price. Satan used a visual: he “showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor” (Matthew 4:8). One of his temptations in the wilderness was an attempt to make Jesus covet earthly power. Satan used a visual image to help entrap her. Part of the reason Eve listened to the serpent in the Garden was that she looked at the forbidden fruit and saw that it was “pleasing to the eye” (Genesis 3:6). Satan uses the lust of the eyes as one avenue of temptation. Exodus 20:17 commands, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.” Coveting can include a desire to have people, possessions, or status. The Ten Commandments addressed the lust of the eyes in its prohibition against coveting. In contrast, the child of God is guaranteed eternity. John emphasizes that these physical things do not last they will pass away. This coveting of money, possessions, or other physical things is not from God, but from the world around us. Simply put, the lust of the eyes is the sinful desire to possess what we see or to have those things which have visual appeal. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.” What is this “lust of the eyes”?
For everything in the world-the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life-comes not from the Father but from the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. The phrase “lust of the eyes” is found in 1 John 2:15-17: “Do not love the world or anything in the world.
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