Devotional – How is Your Sight?

 

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.  But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! (Matthew 6:22-23)


I overheard a humorous exchange between two ladies as I walked one morning. One was telling the other that she had, for a  while, been using her old pair of glasses because she had misplaced the newer one. 

When she eventually found the new pair, she realized that all she had not been seeing was as clearly as she should have. Everything had looked so dull and unreal but she had gotten accustomed to seeing them that way and that state had become her reality. The new glasses, however, shed new light on things.  In her words |’everything seemed brighter and clearer.’ She now had a new perspective. She was now literally seeing things from a new vantage point.  She lamented that she had not realized earlier.. It was really funny and they had a good laugh about it, but the spiritual parallel is no laughing matter.

Spiritually we are dead because our eyes are blinded by the scales of sin. Our view of life and reality is distorted. We think we are living but we are not. We are merely existing, captives to the wiles of the enemy.

Salvation brings light to the eyes. When we come to Christ and accept the gift given by His shed blood and the finished work on the cross, we begin to see things with precision and clarity and truly begin to live. As the Word says, we have been passed from death to life (1 John 3:14). We live and walk in love because we have now been exposed to the truth.

So, this begs the question….how is your sight? Excellent, I hope. 

Let us not walk in darkness but in light. May our eyes be full of light and not darkness. 

Prayer

Father, help us to walk in light and not in darkness. Open our spiritual eyes so that we see the truth if who you are. In Jesus’ name. Amen.


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