Be careful little eyes what you see

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. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! – Matthew 6.22-23

It is amazing how many times the songs we use for children would be helpful for us as adults if we could learn to apply them ‘Jesus Loves Me This I Know’ is one of those. ‘Obedience in the Very Best Way’ is another.

Another is ‘O be careful little eyes what you see, for your Father up above is looking down in tender love.’

Here Jesus lays the foundation for that song – ‘the light of the body is the eye so if we use our eyes properly the body will be full of light. But the eye can also bring in terrible darkness and when that happens the darkness can be a terrible darkness.

We must be careful that we constantly fill our eyes with the light and not walk in darkness. We can’t survive spiritually if we just keep filling our eyes with darkness. We can’t prosper with Christ if we are stumbling around in darkness. We have been delivered from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God’s perfect light. Why then do we keep looking back into the darkness?

Be careful little eyes what you look at. Fill your eyes with the light of the gospel.