Friday, June 23, 2017, 04:20
Matthew 6:22-25
The light of the body is the eye: if then your eye is single set upon, and focused on Christ, your whole body will be light.
But if your eye is wicked looking after and desiring wicked things, then all your body will be dark.
 
So if that that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness?
For no man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or else he will lean to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.
 
Therefore I say to you, don’t be concerned for your life, what you will eat, or what you will drink: or for your body, what you will put on. Is not the life given to you by the Father worth more than meat, and the body worth more than clothing?
 
 

When our eye is set on things of this earth our heart will be pulled away from the Father and darkness will creep in and as we allow it to sin will; dominate our lives and thinking our life’s will be darkness. And the world around us will not see Christ. they will see that we are more concerned about things of this world what we will eat, what we wear, what we live in, stuff and things.

To have a drive to have the perfect looking home or clothing shows a dependency on self rather than the Father, for if you aere trusting in the Father you will not worry if your home or your clothing is like everyone else’s.

The secret (be content with what you have been given by the Father, spend your time serving God instead of your own desirers and things).

When most Christians to day think of sin they think of the so called big ones, the actions like stealing, murder, adultery,

But Jesus said that our thoughts life is just as important as our actions, and the sin of a bad heart, greedy, hateful attitude, lust are just as much of a sin. And will fill our lives with darkness, for when our minds are filled with these things we cannot be thinking of the Father and His love.

If we do not put God first in our lives and love Him with all our heart soul, and mind, but allow other things or people to become our focus we are sinning and allowing darkness to overtake us.

And we will not

  • Love our fellow man as our self’s
  • We will have other gods before Christ
  • We will have idols and worship then
  • and we will end up taking the name of the Lord our God in vain
  • we will forget the Sabbath day, and will not keep it holy
  • we will have no honor for father and mother
  • we will commit murder, perhaps only in our minds but we will
  • we will commit adultery, also perhaps only in our minds
  • we will steal maybe not stuff and things but we will steal our love from God
  • we will bear false witness
  • and yes we will covet our neighbor and the things he possess.
By keeping our eye on Christ, putting Him before everyone and everything in our lives, our body (our being) will be light to this world and draw others to Him. Like a moth to a light.
 
So: let your lite shin before men so that your heavenly Father may be glorified.
 
 
 
Tomorrow: have you found your life?

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