Perception

UV3396/10000 Perception

The eye is the lamp of the body; so if your eye is clear ( spiritually perceptive), your whole body will be full of light (benefitting from God’s precepts).

Matthew 6 v 22

The Word of God is described as a lamp unto our eyes and a light unto our feet. Hence, the Word becomes the lamp of the body of the believer. The alternative is the world which is full of darkness though it appears to be light. If we fill our minds and bodies with the world’s philosophies and thoughts, we are filling our lives with darkness. We have to be careful, according to this uni-verse, to be filled with the light of the word of God and not live in our own light or our own understanding of the truths of life. Jesus described Himself as the Light of the world. We are to be filled with His teachings and precepts in order to be victorious in this life and to emerge from this life victorious into eternity.

Just as the eye has four principal parts to help us see clearly- the retina, the cornea, the pupil or lens and a jelly like substance that helps to focus the incoming images onto the retina, the Word has commands that are to be obeyed, precepts to be understood and applied in our contexts, promises to claim and believe, models or examples to avoid or follow. The optic nerve conveys the images to the brain to guide the perceptions and movements of the whole body. Likewise, the Holy Spirit conveys accurately the perceptions and visions to our spirit so that our whole body and the use of different parts and faculties of our minds and bodies are in accordance with the Word.

The word gives us a clear near vision of what we need to do now or today, in the present moment as well as the far or distant vision of our long term goal and purpose in life. A constant connection and alignment between our near vision and our long term vision is essential to fulfill the God-given or God-revealed purpose of life. We should be willing to cast out “ the beam” in our eyes that blocks out the beams of light from the Lord- anything that blocks our clear view. We should not be so short-sighted as to forget what we look like spiritually in the mirror of His word but take consistent and persistent steps to accept spiritual correction and course correction in our lives.