Matthew 6:22-23

The Daily Verse with Luis Feliz

Matthew 6:22-23 “Your eye is like a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light. But when your eye is unhealthy, your whole body if filled with darkness. And if the light you think you have is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is!
So when God created the Universe, he said “ Let There Be light” . So life began, at that moment. Jesus is teaching us that this light or in other words this life or this reality is visible with our eyes. And that is pretty easy to understand, we see the world through our eyes. But it doesn’t stop there. When he says “ when our eyes are healthy our whole body is filled with light”.
Check this out. What do you think a healthy eye is? A healthy eye is much more than an eye that doesn’t need glasses and has perfect vision. Having a healthy eye has little to do with the physical health of the eye, and everything to do with what are you doing with your eyes.
So the next logical question is, what do we need to do to develop a healthy eye? It’s actually pretty simple. All we have to do is search and look for all that is beautiful, loving, honorable, pure, excellent, clean, admirable, holy, and divine. Isn’t that awesome.
Well, it doesn’t stop there, because something very special happens when we have a healthy eye. He says that when your eye is healthy your “whole body is filled with light”. He is not only referring to light as life. That is not all of it. Light is also defined as spiritual illumination by divine truth!
So, when your eye, my eye is healthy our spirits become illuminated! It means we are projecting light and we become filled with life, our spirit becomes illuminated and we see the world through the eyes of divine truth.
However Jesus knows that we live in a world in which evil is ever present, so he is also giving us a warning. We have to learn what can happen when our eyes are unhealthy. Can you think about what do you need to do in order to develop an unhealthy eye? Let me tell you just to make sure. If you search for and look at all that is evil, hateful, wicked, hurtful, deceitful, and corrupted, your whole body will be filled with darkness. And darkness is defined as the absence of light. That is no good, not good at all. We already know that light is life, light is spiritual illumination. When our eyes are unhealthy we run the risk of losing the life and the reality that God has for you and me.
One last thing. Evil things will happen, corruption will happen, pain and suffering will happen. Wicked and hateful people will show up in life. And you might have to face them. What Jesus is teaching us is to devote our lives to look for the light instead of darkness.
You remember the scene in the movie Moana. When Moana tells the evil monster Taka, I know who you are, and even though from the outside Taka looked like a monster, Moana was able to see the light inside her. That is what Jesus telling us. When our eyes are healthy, not only are we filled with light, we can see the light inside of others and point them to the source of light which is Jesus Christ. And that is some practical wisdom we can apply today. If you found this valuable please consider subscribing and sharing this podcast. By the way if you are interested in sharing your favorite verse. Contact me and you will be a guest in my podcast. Looking forward to hearing from you. God Bless You and see you on the next episode.

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