The light of the body is the eye

The King James Version Bible has a wonderful way of using words to express God’s thoughts through the Holy Spirit.

For instance, let’s read Luke 11:34–36:

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.

Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no dark part, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.

Interesting how it warns us to not let the light within us be darkness. This must be talking about a false light. We might think we have light in us, but we have to take heed that it isn’t a false light, which is darkness.

Often, we use rationalizations to justify our sins, which is a form of false light or worldly wisdom.

This passage is also very important because it emphasizes the role our eyes play in allowing light or darkness into our lives. With our eyes, we lust after people and things, which makes our whole body full of darkness.

We can often see the light and darkness in other people through their eyes.

2 Peter 2:14:

Having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have exercised with covetous practices, cursed children.

Ephesians 1:18:

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.

There are many scriptures about the eyes. Jesus healed many people of blindness, yet he couldn’t help those who had eyes but could not see spiritually while thinking they could.

There is so much darkness around us in the modern world, both online, through television, and in our everyday lives. If the light of the body is the eye, then we must stay focused (single) upon God and His righteousness, so our body can be full of the light. Jesus Christ is the light and we want to let Him shine in us like a bright shining candle.

It comforts me that if I can keep my eye single upon Jesus, then the light will fill my whole body, even if the world is getting darker every day around me.

Originally published at Medium's New Creation