Saturday 15th June
Read Matthew 6:22-24
“‘The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
24 ‘No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.” (NIVUK)
Our hearts and eyes reveal what we worship. Jesus concludes his thoughts on what we value most with one of the strongest dichotomies imaginable. God or wealth. The implication being that we will either worship and serve the divine or bow down to earthly wealth and material things. One can’t serve both.
If we consider Psalm 119 further, perhaps that is why the psalmist prays later in these words?
“Turn my heart towards your statutes
and not towards selfish gain.
37 Turn my eyes away from worthless things;
preserve my life according to your word.” (v36-37)
The alternative to fixing our eyes upon God and His promised word is to be drawn away to material, worthless things. No one can serve two masters. In the words of a beautiful song – if we turn our eyes upon Jesus then ‘the things of earth will grow strangely dim’…
