I am grateful, Father, for Your care and compassion. Your patience, I don’t know if I will ever totally comprehend but You have it in abundance and in so many ways I am indebted to You. May I continue to hear Your call in my life. Amen.

Matthew 6:22-23 (<<click the green)

A few years I had to get up in the middle of the night for a trip down the hall. I have done it so frequently over the many years that I literally can do it with my eyes closed! Well on that particular night it was a very poor choice. I took one too many steps forward and my big toe on my left foot slammed into the base of Karen’s dresser. Needless to say, it hurt like the dickens! I did discover a couple of days later when I had my foot x-rayed after I fractured it – just call me Grace! – that my toe, at least, was not broken.

On that particular night, my eyes were in fine working order – I just neglected to use them! Lord, You state in this passage, “Your eye is like a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light.” We do not keep our house pitch black at night and if I had just cracked my eyes open a sliver, I probably would not have hit the dresser.

Spiritually, Lord, the same thing can happen. The Amplified Bible puts it this way, “The eye is the lamp of the body; so if your eye is clear [spiritually perceptive], your whole body will be full of light [benefiting from God’s precepts].” (emphasis mine)

How often do I close my spiritual eyes thinking, “I’ve done this hundreds of times – in fact, I’m sure I can do it with my eyes closed”? I may get by on occasion but far too often I slam into something detrimental to my spirit that I could easily have avoided if I had been paying attention.

Verse 23 in the Amplified Bible goes on to say,

“But if your eye is bad [spiritually blind], your whole body will be full of darkness [devoid of God’s precepts]. So if the [very] light inside you [your inner self, your heart, your conscience] is darkness, how great and terrible is that darkness!”

Lord, may my eyes always be wide open and may they always be focused on You and what You would have me do. Amen.

Jan 28th, 2018, Sun, 6:46 pm