Jesus is teaching in the sermon on the mount when He says the following that is found in Matthew 6:22-23 "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!"
So what do our eyes tell others about us? Here we see that they tell volumes about us and our soul's condition. So how do our eyes become good our bad? Well, here we find that they are windows to our soul. So they let things directly into our souls. What you look at, watch and read will impact your souls condition. After this stuff is in there then others can see it as clearly as looking into a window. Just a note about windows back then, they were usually just opening with no glass. If you could see in the window then you could see everything. Often times people think that they can hide their 'secret' sin, yet anyone looking at them can see that something is wrong.
We need to guard our eyes/souls protecting them from the evils of the world ... 'be careful little eyes what you see.' Now the best way to guard what we let in our eyes is not by have barriers and blinders up that prevent us from seeing. They best way to guard our eyes is by making sure that they are focused on the right things. The right things are God and His Word. Is this where you re focusing?
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