22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye be single, your whole body will be full of light.

23 But if your eye be evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

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.

25 Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

26 Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.

— Matthew 6:22-26, 33-34

Thoughts on Today’s Reading

Grace, mercy and love from Christ to you.

Jesus said about our eyes, both physical and spiritual ones, “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of light. But if your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness!” We have physical eyes to see natural things and we also have spiritual eyes to see spiritual things. When Jesus said, “The light of the body is the eye,” He was saying that the light of a person’s soul (the mind, will, and emotions) is controlled by that person’s spirit.

When Jesus continued, “if therefore your eye be single,” we learn that the spirit of man should have one purpose, a single focus — to glorify God. If we have the single purpose of glorifying God, our whole body shall be full of light. But if our eyes are not single, not focused on Jesus Christ, our whole body shall be full of darkness. As we continue reading this passage of the Bible, it says, “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.”