In Matthew 6:22-23 Jesus says, “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!” Here, Jesus uses the light of the eye to represent that which is important to us, what is it that catches our attention. If our eye is good, it seeks out the light of God’s word and the good things in life. If our eye is bad, if the sinful things in life grab our attention, all we see is darkness. As Isaiah 59:10 says, “We grope for the wall like the blind, And we grope as if we had no eyes; We stumble at noonday as at twilight; We are as dead men in desolate places.” There are many things that can cause this spiritual blindness. 1 John 2:11 says, “But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.” In John 3:19 Jesu said, “And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” Christians need to be careful to keep their eyes, their attention, focused on the right things because we can lose sight of the light as well. “But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.” (2 Peter 1:5-9). Proverbs 23:5 warns us not to focus on worldly things which have no true value. “Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.” Like the psalmist in Psalms 119:37 we should ask God, “Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, And revive me in Your way.”