Spiritual Sight

Sunday 28 June
READ: Matt 6: 22 - 23
MORE LESSON: Rev 3: 17 - 18

People attach a lot of importance to eyesight, and being blind in the natural is seen as one of the worst things that can happen to a man. This reminds me of the story of a beautiful sister who had a conviction that God wanted her to marry a brother who happened to be blind. When the lady introduced the man to her father who was a rich man, the father said that she must be out of her mind. Many things were done to discourage her but she held on to her conviction. She said she preferred to marry a blind man in God's will than to marry a man with sight if it is not God's will. The family finally succumbed and wedding plans were made. On the wedding day, after they were joined together, the groom's eyes opened!
Why do men attach so much importance to sight? Why is blindness seen as a major problem? Physical things actually portray a higher spiritual reality. Man's aversion to blindness in the natural is an expression of the evil of blindness in the spiritual realm,
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! Matt 6:22-23.
A man without Jesus is engulfed by great darkness and such a man needs to allow the light of life to come into his heart so that he may see, then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life: John 8:12.
A man, even a Christian, who is not full of the Word of God is blind because the Word is light (Psa 119: 105, John 1: 1-4). This is why you must make it a point of duty to be full of God's Word. A man who doesn't keep his eyes single and focused on Jesus will also be blinded by the distractions of worldliness.
This is the reason our text says that for you to be full of light, your eyes must be single. This talks about singleness of focus on Jesus. In Rev 3: 17 – 18, the problem with the Laodicean Church (which represents the End-time Church) is that worldliness and materialism have so much overtaken them that the Lord says they have become blind. But Jesus enjoins them to buy eye-salve from Him so that they may see. I pray that God will re-anoint you and rededicate you with His eye-salve so that the things of the world will not make you blind to the things of God, in Jesus’ name.

Prayer/Action
* Pray that you will not lose your spiritual sight.
* Declare, Father, because Your Word is a lamp to my feet and light to my path, I shall not walk in darkness.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
I receive the key of David; every door that I open shall be opened and the ones I close shall be closed, in the name of Jesus.