Seeing with God’s Eyes

In Mt 6:22, 23, Jesus talks about the eye. One fact about the marvelous eye is that it can adapt to see in near darkness and after a short period of time, you can see quite well. Jesus takes this idea and makes the spiritual application of being full of righteousness and therefore able to see clearly versus being deluded with sin and being full of darkness. If one adjusts to the darkness of sin, Jesus proclaims, “How great is that darkness.” Isaiah says, “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light, and light for darkness,” Isa 5:20.

    On the other hand, the writer of Hebrews says, “let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,” Heb. 12:1. We can run that race because of God: “Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path,” Ps. 119:105.

    Is it easily to mistake darkness for light, or light for darkness? It must be because Jesus said to those who thought they followed Him because of the great works by saying, “And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; Depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’” After describing the superiority of Jesus, the writer of Hebrews gives this encouragement, “For this reason, we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it,” Heb. 2:1

    When we see as God sees, our eyes are clear and we “fear no evil, for You are with me ... And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever,” Psa. 23. May

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