Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity

Psa_119:37  Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

So much of our time is spent focused on ourselves, even ourselves in relation to others. Thinking about how we appear to others, thinking about how we feel at any given moment. Venting to others often as we feel the need.  How can we keep from this vanity that afflicts us all in so many incredible ways? I don't have the answers.  I do know that the above verse is a plea to God, a plea we all should have. 'Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity…..  quicken thou me in THY way.'

We need God to turn our eyes from our vanity. 

We truly must pray this prayer from our heart.

David's son, Solomon was given the greatest of all wisdom any man had been given and he was very clear in revealing the truth about vanity.

Ecc_1:14  I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecc_12:8  Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

Imagine for a moment-  having seen ALL the works that are done under the sun.  A lie? Impossible? We would say impossible wouldn't we? But why would this be a lie, is it a metaphor? Is it an exaggeration? Could Solomon have been shown all the works under the sun? Perhaps he was shown everything, or enough so that he could comprehend that so much is truly vanity, that it is at the root of all our lives. 

If we weren't focused on ourselves what would we be focused on? How can we not be focused on ourselves? Truly God alone has the power to rid us of our vanity.  If Christ is in us then we are not self-focus, we can't be. Christ will fill our spirit with His Spirit. We must be Christ focused, we must choose to desire to be Christ focus and then let our God work in us.

As the Holy Spirit convicts us we are to use the conviction to seek Christ in a deeper walk. We are to truly comprehend our need of Christ in our every moment and if we believe that we don't need Him in our every moment then we are sorely mistaken.

Please Father in heaven, please help us to realize how much in our lives is vanity and help us to seek forgiveness, repenting truly repenting.  Please Holy Spirit, please speak for us because our words fall short, our knowledge falls short, whatever it is we need please give it to us because we don't even know the depths of our needs. We would be Yours, please…please.  All through our Savior, Jesus Christ our Lord!

Now and FOREVER.

Amen.