. The Rose Taught Me a Lesson by
J. R. Miller. Turn my eyes from
looking at what is worthless. Psalm 119, 37. We must be always
turning if we would keep our life true and according to God's
commandments. There are some flowers which
always turn toward the sun. There was a little potted rose
bush in a sick room which I visited. It sat by the window. One day
I noticed that the one rose on the bush was looking toward the
light. I referred to it, and the sick
woman said that her daughter had turned the rose around several
times toward the darkness of the room, but that each time
the little flower had twisted itself back, until again its
face was toward the light. It would not look into the darkness. The rose taught me a lesson,
never to allow myself to look toward any evil, but instantly
to turn from it. Not a moment should we permit
our eyes to be inclined toward anything sinful. To yield to
one moment's sinful act is to defile the soul. One of the main
messages of the Bible is, turn from the wrong, the base, the
crude, the unworthy, to the right, the pure, the noble, the godlike. We should not allow even an unholy
thought to stay a moment in our mind, but should turn from its
very first suggestion with face fully toward Christ, the Holy
One. I will set before my eyes no
vile thing. Psalm 101 3 Finally, brothers,
whatever is true Whatever is noble, whatever is
right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable,
if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things. Philippians
4.8