But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! The bad eye (ponērós, evil or diseased) is the eye that is divided in its vision, that tries to see two things at once — treasure in heaven and treasure on earth simultaneously. The darkness that results from the diseased eye is not merely the absence of light but the condition in which what you think is light is actually darkness: if the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! The most dangerous blindness is the blindness that does not know it is blind — the person who thinks they are seeing clearly while walking in the darkness of divided loyalty. Isaiah 5:20 warns those who call evil good and darkness light.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

Publish a note on this verse