Luke 10-12: The Lamp of the Body

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness. See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be completely lighted, as when the light of a lamp shines on you.” . - Luke 11:34-35  NIV

Years ago when I was in India, I met an Indian woman who had married an American missionary and as such had spent a great deal of time in the United States.  I have never forgotten her saying that while she still had an Indian heart, she now had American eyes.  By that she meant that she was attracted to all of the material things that she saw longed to possess when she was in the States.  During that time, I was surrounded by children in the orphanage where we stayed who owned nothing, not a single toy, but were happy and content in ways that the most wealthy in the United States would envy. 

If ever there was a time when mankind is in need of good eyes, it is now.  Many of us face the prospect of losing everything we have by these challenging economic times, but it's all in the eye of the beholder.  He that loves his life will lose it.  He that loses his life, well, he's the one that will find it. 

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