Vital Step to a Radiant Faith-Offer our Eyes to God

JOHN SHIRK – In the Year to Shine, today’s Vital Step to a Radiant Faith is to offer our eyes to God.

Jesus said in Matthew 6:22, “the eye is the lamp of the body. If our eyes are healthy, our whole body will be full of light. But if our eyes are unhealthy, our whole body will be full of darkness.”

Our desires often follow what we choose to see. A negative example of that is the Garden of Eden, when Eve saw that the forbidden fruit was good for food and pleasing to the eye. She was not glancing at the fruit. She was focusing on it, and thinking about it, until it led to an unholy desire and disobedient choice. There is something for us to learn from that moral failure.

If viewing the forbidden fruit can lead us into sinful actions, then it stands to reason that noble actions flow out of fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.

Offering our Eyes to God is a vital step to a radiant faith that makes a difference in our world.

John Shirk

john@wjtl.com