Morning Thought:
22 “Your eye is like a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light. 23 But when your eye is unhealthy, your whole body is filled with darkness. And if the light you think you have is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is! (Matthew 6:22–23, NLT)
As I read this today, I could not help but think of all the confusion going on in the body of Christ. There are leaders who are using their pulpits and ministries as dispensers of darkness when they think they are in His light. Ministries that manipulate with “prophetic words” are imposing the will of darkness into the lives of unsuspecting and undiscerning Christians.
I have asked myself how is it that the body of Christ is so undiscerning? How is it that people can be led astray so easily? It is because they have mistaken darkness for light. And how is this possible? It is possible because the eye or the entry way to the heart of man is the gatekeeper and whatever influences the gatekeeper also influences the heart. Proverb 4:23 tells us above all we guard we are to guard our heart because it determines the direction of our lives. When we let our guard down, darkness enters in to manipulate, confuse, and disorient our thinking and ultimately our direction in life. We can no longer discern good from evil because evil has infiltrated and tainted our hearts and is now the context, and unfortunately the standard, in which we view all around us.
Do we understand? The Scriptures instruct us toward the importance of God’s Word. Jamnes 1:21 tells us that we are to humbly accept the Word of God in our lives, because it is able to save our souls. David says in 119:11 that God’s word is hidden, or internalized, in his heart so he might not sin against God.
We are also cautioned that a time of barrenness of the Word of God would come. This too is confirmed by Scripture in Amos 8:11 “The time is surely coming,” says the Sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread or water but of hearing the words of the Lord.
We must return to His Word as our very life. How important is God’s Word? Joshua was told to meditate on God’s Word day and night and then his way would be prosperous. (Joshua 1:8). The Psalmist says meditating on the Word of God day and night will cause success in what we put our hands to. (Psalm 1:1-3).
We must understand that the Word of God is the very substance and sustenance of our life. We cannot be foolish. Moses warned the children of Israel of the importance of obeying the word of the Lord and we would be wise to take heed. Deuteronomy 32: 45 -47 (Amplified) And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel, 46 He said to them, Set your [minds and] hearts on all the words which I command you this day, that you may command them to your children, that they may be watchful to do all the words of this law. 47 For it is not an empty and worthless trifle for you; it is your [very] life.
