“The light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness.” (Matthew 6:22-23) If our conscience is clear before God then we can ascertain that the light of God illuminates the dark spaces in our soul. There is nowhere for sin to hide and we be ok with that. There would be no room for us to, “shuck and jive” in an effort to counterfeit darkness for light. For, this is what is at the heart of things when we are full of darkness; we will try to convince ourselves and others that our wrong is right. “We may interpret the passage of conscience as the eye of the soul,—conscience must be clear and simple. If the conscience, which is the candle of the Lord, and which searches the secret parts of the belly, be not light but darkness, how great must the darkness be! If a man has not enough conscience to know darkness from light and light from darkness, and he puts bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter…If the understanding of man be dark, how dark must be man's soul! If that which judges, and weighs, and tests; if that which is to us the teacher, the recorder of the town of Mansoul; if that be amiss, if the recorder make wrong entries, if the understanding has bad scales and uses divers weights, how gross, indeed, must be the ignorance of man…Let but the understanding be enlightened, and the rays will diffuse themselves, and illuminate every faculty of the whole man.” Those of us with a single eye will hold nothing back from God. He will be our light. “Whichever you do, do it with all your heart; but do not try to do both, because you cannot. Oh, if ye be Christians live with all your might for Christ. Keep not back part of the price, like Ananias and Sapphira, but give Jesus your all.” Single Eye, Full of Light! GiGi❤️
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