I Can Do It with My Eyes Closed!

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 here to read the passage)

A few years ago, 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 the 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 (I fractured it after rolling my foot into a pothole in a parking lot – just call me Grace!) that my toe, at least, was not broken.

The night of the toe incident, 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.” NLT

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)
Jan 5^th, 2023, Thurs, 8:54 pm