No. 28 Healthy Eyes

The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is unhealthy your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness.

Matthew 6:22, 23

Healthy eyes fill the body with light, like Christ’s light-filled body on Tabor.

Open your eyes to beauty and turn on the lamp of the body. Let the light fill your whole body. Healthy eyes are fed a diet of beautiful, wholesome sights nature, children, loving people.

Looking at evil makes your eyes unhealthy. Looking at pornography, violence, and horror send your body into scary darkness.

Be careful to keep your eyes as healthy as you do your body when you eat well, drink plenty of water and exercise.

Of course, from time to time healthy eyes must see sad sights, such as Jesus Christ hanging on the Cross, or the cute little lamb being sacrificed on the altar. Such sacrifices are important for healthy eyes to see. How else would we understand the deadly effects of missing the Mark?

Free will is this: we may be deciding between mental health and sickness, between light and darkness, between life and death because of what we choose to eat with our eyes, and what we think about. We gather the flowers or weeds from the kinds of seeds we sow in our eyes, minds, and bodies.

Oh aspiring immortal; be filled with light and shine on this nighttime world!

Food for thought.