Matthew 6:23

“But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness

One time I was getting in my car to go to church. As I got in I looked over to my passenger seat and saw this huge spider web! It might have even said, “Some Pig”, it was so big and intricate. Unfortunately for me, I hate spiders. The freak me out a bit. So you could imagine that my fear was growing when I saw this spider web. I knew that there just had to be a spider in the care, who seems to not only have scurried in and out but also took up a permanent residence. My eyes were darting around the entire drive, looking for the spider to jump out.

It was a simple deduction for me to figure out that there was a spider in my car. I did not have to see it in order to know. The web was all the evidence that I needed. There are many similar litmus tests for us as Christians as well. Do we have to see our soul’s in order to know if is holy or godly? No. Instead we can tell by our focus, our attitudes, and our actions. With the Bible as our guide, we can see if our lives are in accordance with what God wants from us.

Using Jesus’ idea about the eye, one of the major litmus test is our eyes, or if you will the desire of our eyes. The eye here is being used in the sense of what do we set our sights on? What is our focus? Is the main thing we think about and work on to achieve riches? Or popularity? Power? Or instead do we focus on the things of God? We should be constantly looking at how we can grow closer to God, glorify His kingdom, and love our fellow man, especially Christians. If we are focused instead on worldly things, we have gknow about where our heart is, and that it is not following God as it should. But if we focus on the things of God, we have good evidence that our hearts are in the right place.

“But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!