Here's the passage:
Your eye is a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light. But when your eye is bad, your whole body is filled with darkness. (Matthew 6:22-23a)
Was 2013 a victorious year for you in the faith? Or, like many Christians that I've talked to, did you stumble and fall in areas that you now regret? Yeah, me too. According to this passage, the eyes truly are the window to your soul. If my eyes are good, then my whole body is filled with light! That's so encouraging!
The resolution I'm adding this year is: KEEP MY EYES GOOD.
It doesn't make much sense grammatically speaking, but I will know exactly what it means:
1. Put the Bible before my eyes every morning.
2. Close my eyes in prayer and focus on the God I love and serve.
3. Watch movies and internet clips that honor God.
4. Look for opportunities around me to share my faith and love people.
5. Get my eyes away from my smartphone and instead focus on my wife and son.
These are just some ways I hope to improve this year. Praying I can look back at the end of 2014 and say with a big smile that "I am different than I was a year ago!".
"There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect."
~ G.K. Chesterton
