Matthew 5:15, 6:22-23
Nor do men light a lamp, and put it under the bushel but on the lamp stand; and it gives light to all who are in the house. --
This is what light does: it shines out into the darkness and chases the darkness away, filling the place of darkness with light, giving light to the whole house. The light overcomes the darkness.
The lamp of the body is the eye; if therefore your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. --
The eye that sees God's Truth clearly will give "light" filling the whole "body" with the goodness of God.
But if your eye be bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.
If the eye cannot see God's Truth, it will "see" all the lies and deception the world, the flesh and the devil pour out to disguise and obscure the Truth.
If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
So if what you consider to be light (Truth) really is darkness (lies and deception), and the darkness is acting like light in you, then the darkness will be spreading extinguishing whatever pockets of Truth that were there, deepening and taking over the whole person. The darkness will overcome the light.
This sounds so seriously drastic. I want to continually question what I consider to be Truth in my life, to make sure it conforms to God's Truth in His Word, to stay in the Word to study and apply God's principles in my daily living and in my relationships with those God has placed in my life. I want His Light to overcome whatever darkness still lurks in my heart.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
