Wicked Things

Did you know that according to social media statistics "100 million hours of video content are watched on Facebook daily"

That "Facebook now sees 8 Billion average daily video views from 500 million users"

There are 6,000 tweets sent every second, 500 million every day

About 95 million photos are uploaded each day on Instagram

There are over 75 Billion ideas on Pinterest

more than 14 million articles are Pinned each day

Snapchat has 178 million daily active users

On an average, 3 Billion snaps are sent every day

More than 20,000 photos are shared every second

More than 400 million snapchat stories are created per day

over 5 billion videos are watched per day on Youtube

400 hoursworth of video content is uploaded every minute on Youtube

According to an article in the New York Post - people spend an average of nine and a half hours a day consuming media in 2015 and that has continuously gone up.

While I am not calling all of these things wicked - I am pretty positive that a large percentage of these are worthless things.

That is really what this word "wicked" means -

The term here — worthless — is a compound. Literally: without + profit = worthless.

Growing up this was the go to verse for preaching against the TV. I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. Now I am not up here saying that TV's are ok, but I don't think that is what David is talking about. For one thing David never knew what a television was. And second - there are many more wicked things out there beside the TV especially today.

David is saying I will not take a second look at base, or worthless things.

As Charles Spurgeon said, “It is the tendency of things that are gazed at to get through the eyes into the mind and the heart.” Worthless things in the eye, gazed at, become worthless things lodged in the heart. Our precious attention gets used for futile ends.

He lists several of the big 7 things that God hates later listed by his son in Proverbs

Proverbs 6:16-19 (KJV)

16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Sodom was said to be in the KJV wicked and sinners - pointing out they weren't just sinful but spiritually base and worthless.

Now David was a King and Judge over the people of Israel and he could say things like verse 5 "I will cut off: him that hath an high look …" and verse 8 "I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off al wicked doers from the wicked doers from the city of the LORD"

But we better not be cutting off people, and destroying the wicked - we better leave that to God.

But we are told to watch what we put before our eyes. The New Testament gives us a guidelines of things to think upon of things to look at

Philippians 4:8 (KJV)

8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Like David - lets beware of what we are putting in front of our eyes, what we are seeing - it can affect our spirituality, it can affect our influence.

As the songwriter said so well - "Turn your eyes upon Jesus, and the things of this world will grow strangely dim"