Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of light. The man whose only object is to make good his eternity moves forward in an element of clearness, without the doubts which harass other men. I. THAT WHICH WE MOST DESIRE WE MOST WISH TO KNOW ABOUT. Let a man be actuated by strong desire for salvation and he will never cease to inquire till he has found it. In proportion to the laboriousness of the search is the largeness of the discovery; the "whole body" is "full of light." II. HE THAT HATH SINGLED OUT ETERNITY AS THE OBJECT OF HIS PURSUITH PROVES THAT HE HAS A JUST ESTIMATE OF ITS IMPORTANCE AS COMPARED WITH TIME. To our optics magnitude is reversed; but let it be seen in its just proportions and all the prospects of futurity are altered. This will bring justice and order into the whole perspective of being. What a view do we get of time if we measure it on the scale of eternity. This sweeps away a multitude of errors, and the whole body becomes "full of light." One principle will often throw light over the whole field of contemplation. We must not try to unite the interests of both worlds; this has more than a distracting, it would have a darkening, effect. Another mode in which singleness of eye entails light is by the reflex influence of obedience on faith. The more we prepare for heaven and the further we get on the way to it, the light grows brighter and brighter. Every accession of grace brings new light. The path of the just is as the shining light. (Dr. Chalmers.) Parallel Verses KJV: The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. |
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