Reading: Luke 11:29-44

In a figurative sense, my eye brings light to my body. I can think of my eye as a window through which light enters my being.

“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” (34).

When I think of a single eye, I think of an eye with a single focus.

In other words, it isn’t a wandering eye.

It knows what is good and right and pure, and stays focused on that.

I imagine a single eye as a loyal eye. It has determined not to stray from Jesus. (And when it does stray — which will happen — it returns promptly.)

That kind of eye keeps the entire person in the Way.

I want both of my eyes to be single.

from Luke 11:31

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Reading: Luke 11:14-28

Which am I doing for Jesus?

Not according to how I see it, but according to how He sees it.

Because He sees clearly and accurately.

Because I see a third option: sitting. Doing nothing for Him. Sleeping.

But He says:

“He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth” (23).

Is there truly no neutral ground? Is there really no third option? Is the matter actually that cut and dried?

No. No. Yes. In that order.

Jesus said what He meant. And what He meant is the way things are.

So I better be with Him. I better get busy gathering with Him.

Always.

from Luke 11:17

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