The light of the body

Mat 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Mat 6:23 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!


The light of the body is the eye.


Spiritual sight.


Mat 4:16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.


People never sit in darkness on a constant basis, just sitting in the dark. This is talking about spiritual darkness and yes, people can live in complete spiritual darkness if they choose. When these people which were lost in the spiritual darkness saw the great light…Jesus, those that were without hope in the shadow of death had a light spring up in them. The truth. Jesus.


Joh 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.


In Him, in our Savior is life and that life was the light of men.


Joh 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Joh 1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
Joh 1:7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
Joh 1:8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
Joh 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.


Jesus lighteth every man that cometh into the world. Jesus the true LIGHT.


If the light of the body is the eye- then our spiritual sight has to be focused on the True LIGHT, not on anything dark. We have to be focused on the truth in Jesus, because the truth in Jesus is our light. When we take our eyes off Jesus, when we focus on falsehood, when we look elsewhere for truth we are no longer seeing the light. Satan doesn't want us to recognize when our sight is altered, he doesn't want us to understand that we may be in the spiritual darkness and he'll even go as far as creating a false light, a false truth so that he can deceive us.


Mat 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Mat 6:23 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!


If our eye is single we'll be filled with light.
If our eye isn't single then it is evil and we'll be filled with darkness.
If the light that is in us IS darkness how GREAT is that darkness. Because if the light in us is really darkness we are greatly deceived.


If our spiritual eye is single then our spiritual vision is clear.


Single-
G573
ἁπλοῦς
haplous
hap-looce'
Probably from G1 (as a particle of union) and the base of G4120; properly folded together, that is, single (figuratively clear): - single.


Figuratively clear. Having spiritual clarity. When we have spiritual clarity then we know that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. We understand that life is only found in our Savior and NO WHERE else. There is salvation in no other. We can't save ourselves, others can't save us, only Jesus can give us eternal life. When we don't have this spiritual clarity we fill our lives with lies, with untruths, and people who genuinely fill their lives with untruths believe they have great light but that light is ONLY darkness, great darkness filled with deception.


We can fill our minds with all sorts of things that aren't of the kingdom of heaven and tell ourselves we are still fill with light, but when ANYTHING takes the gospel from us, when anything takes the Light from our lives we are in great trouble.


Is it any wonder we are told to seek the kingdom of heaven FIRST. The kingdom of heaven is salvation through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Keeping our spiritual sight clearly focused on Jesus and the gift He offers us through His love is most important.


By the grace of God we won't ever fill our minds with things that make us believe we are in the light when we are really in darkness. May God forever be first and foremost in our minds and anything else come as a result of His being first and foremost in our lives.


By His most amazing Love!


Amen.