“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!"
Matthew 6:22-23 ESV
It was like any other day as I did my regular Monday morning housework. From laundry to vacuuming, to washing dishes, to wiping up muddy paw prints. I was starting to get a headache when I realized it was noon and I hadn’t eat anything. I made a bowl of cereal and sat down at the kitchen table. The day was so beautiful I decided to open the blinds so I could see the fall trees.
We live in a small 80s model single wide trailer and we have replaced almost everything inside, but the old windows still remain. I stared out the window through the cracks and dingy glass which never seems to get clean. There was a beautiful scene of God’s fall colors and the trees started to change for winter beyond the dirty window but I was missing it because I kept thinking about the dirty broken window.
I heard God tell me he would make it clean and new and remove the old window for a clearer view. I then realized he wasn’t talking about the window.
I’ve heard the eyes are the window to the soul and he was pointing out that mine were clouded. It was not the old window that was the problem, it was the belief that there is something wrong with it.
It says in the Bible that God takes old things and makes them new, in which case my thinking was made new. We put so much thought into how material things look that we neglect to look at ourselves on the inside. A window has two views, one that looks out and one that looks in.
If someone were to look inside your eyes and see your soul, would it be made clean by the blood of Jesus? Or would it look broken, cracked, and dirty like the windows on our trailer?
Perspective can change in the blink of an eye and what is on the outside of our bodies is less important than what is on the inside.
Next time you are caught up in looking at the dirt in the world, take off your worldly lenses and look at it through the clear eyes of God. You can’t beat the view!
"I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called—his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance."
Ephesians 1:18 NLT