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“Your eye is the lamp of your body.” Luke 11:34

What you look at matters. Your eyes allow light into your body, so the images you see are brought within. But what you think about is even more important than what you look at, for the things we think about make the closest approach to our selves. The eyes of your heart let things into your soul.

When you look at wickedness longingly, it walks right in and makes itself at home in your heart. When idols consume your thoughts they consume your self. If you set sin sludging through your feelings, is it any wonder that darkness is formed in you? This is more than negative thinking, it’s necrothought. Death is welcomed when sin is treasured.

So look to Christ. Those who do are radiant. Their faces brighten and their souls come alive under the golden rays of the Sun of Righteouness. Think about Christ today. Think about how far he traveled, how much he suffered, how greatly he loved, and how powerfully he won, to save you. Such things will lighten the soul even as honey brightened the eyes of Jonathan.