Continued from the last
episode-
Again, another entry point a believer should be careful
to guard is his eyes. Definitely, is important a believer develop what is
called a single eye, which is a focused eye. The only thing a believer should at any point
in time be seeing is the Word. It is important to state that situations in life
do come up to distract a believer from focusing on the Word, and the adverse
effect of this, is that the believer will be seeing more of the problem than he
sees more of the Word. At this point in time, the situation is highly magnified
than the Word. However, is important to look but the point is what are you
seeing? So if one can see from the perspective of the Word and as result see
the situation the way it really should be seen that means the believer’s
attention is not derailed because his eyes are single.
Having single eyes means staying one’s eyes on the Word
and invariably it means one staying his eyes on God, and the bible says in the
book of Prophet Isaiah thus “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is
stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.” (Isaiah 26:3). This is an
indication that a perfect peace is achievable and the only source of it is when
one has stayed his eyes on God. So, in a situation the only way to be in perfect peace is to focus on God. A better example is the scenario that involved Peter and Jesus Christ,
we understand that as long as Peter fixed his eyes on Jesus, the storm that was
ravaging the environment doesn’t matter, but immediately he removed his eyes away
from Jesus Christ he saw how mighty the storm was. The consequence of this is
that he lost his peace and he began to sink. That’s exactly what happens when
we take our eyes away from the Word of God; remember what brought Peter to walk
on the water was that Jesus asked him to come. He trusted that word
and that was why he went to meet Jesus the nature of the storm and water
notwithstanding.
Therefore, trusting what one sees as he looks at the Word
is very important. Trust therefore becomes a key as one sees the Word because
it creates a strong faithful base for the believer to stand. As the book of
Isaiah echoes it this way “because he trusteth in thee.” It implies that the
perfect peace the believer enjoys is a bye-product of his trust in the Word of
God and of course is a product of his gaze on it.
Again Jesus teaching in the gospel says that “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). Now this is an emphatic and exact statement
because a body without the eye is in absolute darkness. So the eye lights the
whole body and causes the whole body to be under the influence of light. It
implies that the body that has light will definitely understand how to navigate
its ways. Therefore, because the eye can see and detect where there is danger
and averts it as a result the whole body is seen illuminated. But one thing one
cannot take away though the body can see the perspective of the eye matters a
lot. That is why Jesus made the statement that ‘thine eye be single thy body
shall be full of light’. This is a conditional statement meaning, though one’s
eye sees, inasmuch as it is not single his body cannot be full of light.
The question therefore to answer is this, why must the
eye be single in order for the body to be full of light? It is important to
note that the eye is one of the gateways to the heart of man, whatever the eye sees it
communicates to the heart and whatever that has occupy the heart dictates the
pace for the heart to follow. Whatever the eye sees and the heart accepts
establishes the state of the heart whether it be of darkness or light. The need
for one’s eye to be single becomes a necessity that is unavoidable in that it
entails what the result of the life of that individual is like. The singleness
of the eye helps one to maintain his identity and not taking his eyes away from
who he has become in God. So no matter what he sees, it doesn’t affect his
image in God, and as a result, distraction is avoided.
To be continued…..
Till I come your way again, keep on basking in the Arena
of Indubitable Truth!
Chukwuemeka C. Asiegbu
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