Friday, July 22, 2022
“The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!” Matthew 6:22-23
What we see is not necessarily what we see. As you may have heard, there are none so blind as those who will not see. Sight is the basis for insight; our assessment of what we see with our eyes. Sight is a filter for what we accept and what we reject.
What we see gives perceptive. If our eyes are, as has been said, “windows into the soul,” then they are the gateway to both what we see and how we see. As Jesus says, if our perception is correct, then we are illuminated within. However, if our perception is wrong, our lives our misguided in darkness.
We choose what we will see and what we will ignore. As we consider these words of Jesus in the context of HIs message in the Sermon On the Mount, do we see the value of material wealth, or of kingdom wealth? (Matthew 6:19-21). Which do we set our eyes upon? If we see the value of the things of the kingdom, there is great brightness within. But, if we value and idolize the things of this present world system, we grope about in the darkness as though we were blind.
What do we truly set our sight upon? Our sight becomes insight, which then becomes mindset. Thus the choice is so very important: what is our focus?
May the things of the kingdom of God be that which we choose to see as our focus, and may we act wholeheartedly upon this sight and insight.
Pastor Steve
“The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!” Matthew 6:22-23
What we see is not necessarily what we see. As you may have heard, there are none so blind as those who will not see. Sight is the basis for insight; our assessment of what we see with our eyes. Sight is a filter for what we accept and what we reject.
What we see gives perceptive. If our eyes are, as has been said, “windows into the soul,” then they are the gateway to both what we see and how we see. As Jesus says, if our perception is correct, then we are illuminated within. However, if our perception is wrong, our lives our misguided in darkness.
We choose what we will see and what we will ignore. As we consider these words of Jesus in the context of HIs message in the Sermon On the Mount, do we see the value of material wealth, or of kingdom wealth? (Matthew 6:19-21). Which do we set our eyes upon? If we see the value of the things of the kingdom, there is great brightness within. But, if we value and idolize the things of this present world system, we grope about in the darkness as though we were blind.
What do we truly set our sight upon? Our sight becomes insight, which then becomes mindset. Thus the choice is so very important: what is our focus?
May the things of the kingdom of God be that which we choose to see as our focus, and may we act wholeheartedly upon this sight and insight.
Pastor Steve
