If Your Eye Is Sound

A long time ago (in a land far, far away :) I wrote a book since unpublished entitled, Extreme Christianity. From that book I share a chapter entitled, "If Your Eye Is Sound" but before that I share "Pilate Asked a Question" Spoiler Alert: It's What Is Truth? Then, at the end, I share, "Dwelling in Beulah Land."
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Eva and I had just come back from North Carolina where we had seen the movie, The Gospel of John. Although it was eight hours away, it was the nearest place it was playing at the time, so we made a weekend out of it. What a moving picture it was! We got home early Sunday morning and I couldn’t sleep even though we’d been traveling most of the night and we were going to church in a few hours. So I laid there, on my bed, praising God. Suddenly, in a flash, God showed me a phrase which I knew was from the Bible. “If your eye is sound..” I leapt up to look it up on my computer Bible and found it in Matthew 6:22. I was thrilled. It was God highlighting a portion of the Bible that he wanted me to review. I had never had that happen before (although I understand it is a regular occurrence to some Christians). I was excited about the message from God and the corresponding Bible verse He showed me and wrote...         

Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body shall be full of light.
 6:23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! 
 6:24 No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. (MKJV) 

We see how important it is that we focus only on God and His attributes because the light of the body is in our focus, in what we see, in our eyes. If our eyes focus on the negative darkness of the world, we are giving power to that darkness and determining that the darkness is possibly insurmountable. But nothing is insurmountable with Christ so, as quickly as possible, we must return our focus to Christ and forget the darkness. At this point, it will be seen that nothing can withstand our focus on Jesus. The darkness will disappear as we focus on our Lord.

We cannot serve (or follow or focus on) God and mammon at the same time. We are always showing our love either to one or the other. When our minds and hearts are preoccupied with God and in deep worship on Sunday, worldly interest will have disappeared from our focus as we stand before our Almighty God. However, the next day we may be standing before an associate at work or our boss and trying to deal with the darkness of a back-stabbing relationship or cowering under the boss's demands and haughty, unbending attitude. At this time, it appears completely unfeasible to switch our focus to our Almighty God and trust Him with regard to the apparent injustice that is happening in our dark focus. Yet, it is just that we must do in order to be set free (as Jesus said we would when we knew the truth).