Is Your Eye Healthy?

“No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light. Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness. Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness. If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light.” (Luke 11:33-36 ESV)

Another word for lamp is light, and a lamp shines forth the light, and the light biblically represents Jesus Christ, the truth, the gospel, and our salvation and his righteousness. So, if we accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of our lives, via dying with him to sin and living to him and to his righteousness – via being crucified with him in death to sin and raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness – then that truth and righteousness, and the holiness of God, should be shining forth from our lives.

So, what I believe this is saying is that if our faith in Jesus Christ is genuine faith, and truly we have received the true Light, we shouldn’t be people who then bury that light and hide it so that no one can see it. We shouldn’t be ashamed of Jesus and of his gospel in word or in deed. Our lights should be shining forth the truth of God’s holy word, but not in word only, but in our actions and behaviors and way of thinking and attitudes, etc. It should be obvious that our lives are committed to Jesus Christ and to his Word.

Other words for “eye” are judgment, discernment, and discrimination. And this has to do with discerning good from evil and choosing either to do good or to do evil. And the physical eye definitely can be involved in this, too. For some judgments (decisions) have to do with what we allow our eyes to focus on and to gaze upon. But this really is about the decisions and judgments we make each and every day regarding how we choose to live and what we choose to accept and reject. So this is about how we choose to live our lives.

So, if our practice is to make righteous judgments and moral and upright decisions and choices for our lives, which then is followed by that being how we live, then our eye is healthy, and our whole being is full of righteousness and purity and holiness. But if our practice is to make sinful, evil, and immoral choices, followed by sinful, evil and immoral behaviors, then our eye is bad, and our body (our whole being) is full of darkness (sin, wickedness, evil). And the light within us is darkness.

So, what does that mean? Well, the light represents Jesus and his gospel and truth and righteousness, so I would suggest here that this is speaking of a false light, a false gospel, and a false faith and salvation. This would be people who profess faith in Jesus Christ but by their lifestyles and their life choices they deny him. They give lip service to him only, but they are still living in sin, doing what their evil hearts desire, and they are not living for the Lord, even though they profess to know him.

So, the warning or the caution here is to make certain that we have received within us the true light and not a false light, which is really darkness disguised as light. And receiving the true light is not just words we say. It is living out the truth of what the Word teaches us regarding how we ought to live in our daily lives. Again, I am not saying we must be perfect in every way. But sin should no longer be our master to where we are habitually and deliberately yielding to the sin and not to God and to his righteousness.

[Matt 7:21-23; Matt 24:9-14; Lu 9:23-26; Rom 1:18-32; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14,24; Rom 12:1-2; Rom 13:11; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; 1 Co 1:18; 1 Co 15:1-2; 2 Tim 1:8-9; Heb 9:28; 1 Pet 1:5; Gal 5:16-21; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:5-17; 1 Pet 2:24; Tit 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-9; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; Heb 3:6,14-15; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15] 

Is Your Eye Healthy?

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June 13, 2023

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For Our Nation  

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Trust Him with your life today.

Make Him your Lord and your Savior.

Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.

He will forgive you of your sin;

Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.

On our knees to God we’re praying,

Seeking God to give us answers

That are only found in Him.

God is sovereign over all things.

Nothing from His mind escaping.

He has all things under His command,

And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing

In our Lord, and interceding

For our nation and its people

To obey their God today.

He is our hope for our future.

For our wounds He offers suture.

He is all we need for this life.

Trust Him with your life today.

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