Thought for July 14

[Thought for the Day]

     This is an age when corruption is teeming everywhere. The lust of the
eye and corrupt passions are aroused by beholding and by reading. The heart
is corrupted through the imagination. The mind takes pleasure in
contemplating scenes which awaken the lower and baser passions. These vile
images, seen through defiled imagination, corrupt the morals and prepare the
deluded, infatuated beings to give loose rein to lustful passions. Then
follow sins and crimes which drag beings formed in the image of God down to
a level with the beasts, sinking them at last in perdition.  Adventist Home,
p. 408