Welcome back to Matthew 6. Today we’re going to see how being spiritually perceptive is something we should all aim to be able to do. So glad you’ve come after last week’s forgiveness lesson I was hoping you’d want more. This can be found later in chapter six and we’re doing two parts in each of 5 through 7 at least. Before we read more though, let’s pray:
Lord Jesus, thank You for these words, so many red words in these chapters. I know not all of us have red letter Bibles, and even online I don’t have one, but I know when You’re talking. And Your Words are life giving. So Lord, help us see the lesson in the two verses today. Thank You for leading Lord. Amen.
Please read Matthew 6:22-23
Perceive the Lesson
22 “The eye is the lamp of the body; so if your eye is clear [spiritually perceptive], your whole body will be full of light [benefiting from God’s precepts]. 23 But if your eye is bad [spiritually blind], your whole body will be full of darkness [devoid of God’s precepts]. So if the [very] light inside you [your inner self, your heart, your conscience] is darkness, how great and terrible is that darkness!”
To be spiritually perceptive means that we can see the lessons or the commands or the orders or the rules and follow them which means we’ll benefit from them. For none of them are for our bad, all are for our good.
So precepts: commands, general rules of action, orders. It’s God’s commands, His ways of revealing what our walk should look like, His orders, like the ones Jesus says, forgiveness and love are the top orders. Likely reversed, but see you can’t love without forgiveness and you can’t really forgive without feeling love, even if it’s only God’s love you can feel. His love compels us to forgive. His love compels us to walk His way.
Read Scripture. Understand Scripture. Become perceptive with it. Feel the love, the encouragement the endurance that is all over it. Grow your faith.