Eyes
Luke 11:34 "Your eye is a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light. But when it is bad, your body is filled with darkness. 35 Make sure that the light you think you have is not actually darkness. 36 If you are filled with light, with no dark corners, then your whole life will be radiant, as though a floodlight were filling you with light."
Jesus said this to the religious leaders who had just criticized Him for casting a demon out of a man who couldn't speak. Because they didn't possess that same ability, and they considered themselves God's representatives, they called what Jesus did evil. These words were His response. He was telling them that the gateway of your eye determines the direction your heart is going. Your eye tells the rest of your body where you are going. There is a principle in life that you go where you are looking. If you are driving, and you take your eyes off the road, you will start to swerve in the direction you are looking. In sports like, baseball or golf, you have to "keep your eye on the ball" because you will hit where your are looking.
Jesus was telling these religious leaders that their eye was bad. They were looking to a religious spirit to give them access to what Jesus had through relationship...a closeness to the father. As He demonstrated to them how to have this same relationship, they resisted him and called it fake, evil, and wrong.
There are many ways to have a bad eye...in fact, any plan for holiness or power that doesn't agree with Jesus' definition of light is going to fill you with some measure of darkness...but when you agree with God, then your whole body becomes more and more radiant. That is the measure to determine if your "eye is good." Is your life becoming more like Jesus'...more holy.
A religious spirit is a bad eye. A false sense of grace...the idea that what you choose really doesn't matter as long as you believe...is a bad eye. A good eye is having your goal, your desire, be to know the living God. To talk to Him and then listen like you're expecting to hear back from Him. The only good eye grows out of a relationship with God. He made us to be with Him. Earlier in Luke 11, Jesus told His disciples how to get access to the Holy Spirit and the Father...He was telling them how to have a good eye, and this is what He said:
Luke 11:9 "And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
If you want obedience, you can ask God to help you to hunger and thirst for it. If you want to know the words in God's heart for you, ask Him for them. If you want to have a life filled with light, ask God to help you agree with Him. But "Keep on asking" until it happens. This is what it means to "keep your eye on the ball" in God's kingdom.
Jesus said this to the religious leaders who had just criticized Him for casting a demon out of a man who couldn't speak. Because they didn't possess that same ability, and they considered themselves God's representatives, they called what Jesus did evil. These words were His response. He was telling them that the gateway of your eye determines the direction your heart is going. Your eye tells the rest of your body where you are going. There is a principle in life that you go where you are looking. If you are driving, and you take your eyes off the road, you will start to swerve in the direction you are looking. In sports like, baseball or golf, you have to "keep your eye on the ball" because you will hit where your are looking.
Jesus was telling these religious leaders that their eye was bad. They were looking to a religious spirit to give them access to what Jesus had through relationship...a closeness to the father. As He demonstrated to them how to have this same relationship, they resisted him and called it fake, evil, and wrong.
There are many ways to have a bad eye...in fact, any plan for holiness or power that doesn't agree with Jesus' definition of light is going to fill you with some measure of darkness...but when you agree with God, then your whole body becomes more and more radiant. That is the measure to determine if your "eye is good." Is your life becoming more like Jesus'...more holy.
A religious spirit is a bad eye. A false sense of grace...the idea that what you choose really doesn't matter as long as you believe...is a bad eye. A good eye is having your goal, your desire, be to know the living God. To talk to Him and then listen like you're expecting to hear back from Him. The only good eye grows out of a relationship with God. He made us to be with Him. Earlier in Luke 11, Jesus told His disciples how to get access to the Holy Spirit and the Father...He was telling them how to have a good eye, and this is what He said:
Luke 11:9 "And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
If you want obedience, you can ask God to help you to hunger and thirst for it. If you want to know the words in God's heart for you, ask Him for them. If you want to have a life filled with light, ask God to help you agree with Him. But "Keep on asking" until it happens. This is what it means to "keep your eye on the ball" in God's kingdom.
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