NIGERIAN BAPTIST CONVENTION SEEK DAILY (NBC) Friday, September 22 THE LAMP OF THE BODY

RBT: Micah 1-4

Memory Verse: The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light, Matthew 6:22, NIV

Bible Text: Matthew 6:22-23

6:22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 

6:23 But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! 

A man was driving alone on a journey one night. It was getting dark and he continued until the head lamp went off and there was no one to help. He eventually used the hazard lights to drive for almost 25 km. The journey was slow and alot of dangers were involved.

Jesus identifies the importance of the eye and light to, and in, the body. When the eye is functioning effectively, there will be unhindered progress but the absence of this will cause hindrance. The eye is one of the gates to the body. The eyes are the organs that allow one to have outlook on reality, gives ability of perceiving and responding to what we see. Jesus says the way we perceive and respond to reality either illuminates or darkens our entire being. 

If we perceive God as most valuable and react accordingly, our eye is healthy; if otherwise, the eye is bad. _Watch out what you use your eyes to behold; it has both positive and negative implications. Avoid lusts in all its ramifications._

Insight: The eye is the light of the body.

Prayer: Open my eyes, oh LORD, to behold wondrous things.