Full of Darkness

Luke 11: 34-36

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness. Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness. If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light.

I am a sinner. My eye is not always healthy and, thus, my body is not always full of light. As Christians, sometimes we struggle to see the light - often it is dim and difficult to find in various situations. There is light in everything and something to be learned from every situation that the Lord puts us in. Whether it is in an incident of traffic, with a neighbor, or with a child or spouse, we must always strive to see the light in the situation and not let the darkness taint our reactions (yielding sinful actions) or our make us spiritually unhealthy. When our eye is dark, we cannot reflect the true light of Jesus and display the great glory of God.

Phillipians 4:8

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Our daily evening reading for yesterday puts a nightcap on my post from yesterday. Specifically, "Many tradesmen export their best commodities--the Christian should not. He should have all his conversation everywhere of the best savour; but let him have a care to put forth the sweetest fruit of spiritual life and testimony in his own family." - - from Morning and Evening by Charles H. Spurgeon