SINGLE-EYED

"FOCUS!"

In the King James Bible, Jesus referred to us having "single eyes." Other translations call it clear, pure, etc., but I think single may be precise.

In modern society it seems multi-tasking is every successful person’s goal. How many plates can we keep spinning at once!? The thrust of the Gospel message however is exclusivity! We have been purchased from our own existence, back into our intended, default state - which is holiness! Holiness that we might be fit companions and friends with the Almighty! A goal far higher than our self-serving ambition could ever attain.

To properly serve, I must become presentable, a condition before God I could never expect to reach, but He has already made provision - mine is simply to obediently appropriate it!

Lord, help me to close my wide, lustful eyes of the old man, and see through the single eye You have ordained. There is no lasting fulfillment in the things I can see here, and they only blind me to what is real. You call me "holy and acceptable" - through Jesus...and today my LORD, in total surrender, I agree with You.

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The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

~Matthew 6:22 KJV

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

~1 Corinthians 6:19-20 KJV

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

~Romans 12:1 KJV

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

~1 John 2:16 KJV