Friday September 29, 2023
Matthew 6:22-23
“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will
Be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.
If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!”
The virus of sin has contaminated us throughout, from our innermost to our outermost being. Both soul and body.
As a consequence of this contamination our whole physical body and our entire soul-life function improperly.
In our text Jesus shows us how sin has destroyed the eye of the soul, our spiritual vision.
The eye does not produce light, but it does receive light for the whole body. If the eye is damaged to such an extent that it cannot receive light, the whole body is plunged into darkness.
That people walk about in spiritual darkness is not due to the fact that it is dark about them.
There is light enough.
But the eye, the eye of the soul, is evil, Jesus says; and as a result it cannot receive spiritual light, light from heaven.
Whereupon Jesus makes use of an illustration to show how evil the eye of the soul has become. It cannot distinguish between true and false values, between that which is temporal and that which is eternal, between heavenly and earthly treasures.
All people seek after “goodly pearls.” We all try to secure the best we think it possible to get out of life.
But while heaven hangs over us, filled to overflowing with eternal, incorruptible treasures, all of which can and will be ours if we want them to be, we still dig in this old earth of ours to find our treasures.
Blind to the things which are above us, we gaze with desire upon the things which are beneath us.
For what are you living?
God give you courage to answer this question.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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