“If your eye is pure, there will be sunshine in your soul. But if your eye is clouded with evil thoughts and desires, you are in deep spiritual darkness. And oh, how deep that darkness can be! Matthew 6:22-23
After mowing grass the other day I was trying to find out what was in my eye. As I was poking around I began to laugh as I thought about a Saturday Night Live skit with Mike Meyers where his character had a bad eye. And I remembered I had written a devotion about it, so I looked it up.
The skit was about a guy with a fake eye and no matter what happened, it was because of his fake eye. And it made me think about how believers often do the same thing, but in a Spiritual way. Our spiritual vision can become blurred and distorted when we dwell on issues that are affecting us. When all we see is the problem we become self absorbed and take our eyes off the only One who can give us the proper light to see them in the right perspective and help us overcome whatever the issue is.
Other times our spiritual sight is hindered because of what we see and watch. We know it isn’t good for us, it causes negative and destructive thoughts, that often lead to hurtful and destructive actions not only for ourselves, but others and our relationship with the Lord. But we think it won’t affect us this “one time”.
Just like we search for whatever is causing irritation in our eyes, we need to do the same spiritually. When we ask Holy Spirit to reveal an unknown problem He will. And just like eye drops for our eye, Holy Spirit will clean our spiritual eyes out when we allow Him too. So next time your conscience is irritated, or you feel uncomfortable or just aren’t seeing things clearly, go to the Great Physician and He will cleanse your eyes and you’ll be seeing things with great clarity
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