The Importance Of Healthy Eyes

The amount of light received and distributed to the body depends on the power and accuracy of the eye that receives it. A diseased eye will prevent the access of light and the darkness becomes profound to those who are accustomed to light.

In Luke 11:34, our Lord said:

“The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.”

The spiritual application is that a healthy, ready, unprejudiced spiritual eye is important, because it receives and imparts light to the soul. If the spiritual eye is diseased, the soul will be full of darkness (Matthew 6:22-23; cf. 2 Corinthians 4:3-4; 2 Peter 2:14).

Brethren, we can better appreciate our Lord’s words by establishing right attitudes so that we can continue to receive spiritual light and strength from the gospel (2 Corinthians 4:5-6).

—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets