Is Not Life More

Is Not Life More

Matthew 5:8 (KJV) Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

      You are looking at this screen through one of the wonders of creation, the eye. Your eye is a remarkable testimony to our Creator where millions of light sensitive cells translate the reflection of light from objects around you into information that your brain can then process into a conceptual image giving you the ability to see. Who taught you how to see? How did you mind and eye work out these wondrous things? We take our vision for granted because for most of us it has always been there.

      Jesus said in Matthew 6:22,  “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye by single, your whole body shall be full of light.”

     In Christ’s day it was common belief that light was emitted from the eye, enabling one to see. Jesus contradicts this foolish notion and describes the eye as receiving light. What we look at fills our body. We must open our eyes to receive the light in order to receive understanding. This basic lesson in how the eye works accentuates the spiritual ignorance of man. In pride man believes that the universe revolves around him. Only a few hundred years ago man believed that the sun and the stars revolved around the earth. We want to believe that all things were created just for us and that life and its deepest meanings center around our lives, our burdens, our grief, our love. We set ourselves up to be the reason for life.

      It’s not about you! That is as simple as truth can be told. We cannot receive the truth of God when we allow pride to swallow up everything around us in an attempt to be the purpose of creation. It is about God! At the center of the Universe God sits in His splendor. All things were created by Him and for Him. Without God nothing was created. The battle between good and evil is really about that truth. Satan said, “I will ascend above the clouds, I will be as God.”

     Purity of heart begins with understanding this truth. It’s not about me. “My eyes were made to walk in His footsteps. My body is the temple of the Lord.” Jesus speaks light into darkness in Matthew 6:22, but He is taking us to verse 24.

     “No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than meat, and the body than raiment?”

     Today, I want you to look up from this computer screen and see beyond the walls, the grass, the trees, the sky, the stars above and ponder the question Jesus asked,

“Is not life more…”