"Your eye is like a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light. But when your eye is unhealthy, your whole body is filled with darkness. And if the light you think you have is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is!"

Matthew 6:22-23 NLT

This passage is a wee bit hard to understand right?

We want a "healthy eye" that fills us with light, so perhaps that's about what we see, what information we choose to let in. 

But then there's this discernment piece, that we can be deceived, that what we think is light is actually darkness! 

How do we know?

The context of this piece is that it's sandwiched between the warning about where we're storing treasure because that's where our heart is. (Isn't it interesting that Jesus doesn't say don't store up treasure, it's about where, that's just something people do. We all store treasure somewhere)

The other side of the sandwich is about not serving 2 masters, and you can't serve God and money (& is money an example? Or The Thing?)

It seems that when something other than God has captured our hearts and is our "treasure" then we can end up deceiving ourselves that darkness is light, and our eyes, the lamp is seriously unhealthy. 

Discernment is difficult sometimes, we wrestle with God, with his word, with his people to figure ourselves out. This is not a once and done thing, but a life journey of following Jesus, He is our guide, the Way, the Truth, and the Life

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