New Beginnings Looking Through the Light

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No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light. Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are unhealthy, your body also is full of darkness. See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be just as full of light as when a lamp shines its light on you.

Luke 11:33-36 NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV)

Our eyes are the lamps of our bodies. What we see lets us know how we are viewing the world, our circumstances, and other people.

The “light-filtered” lens is a view of life that filters our thinking through the light of Christ. A “dark-filtered” lens is one that is devoid of Christ, a lens that has a worldly or materialistic view.

Do we see how we could view situations and people from a perspective that is devoid of Christ and not realize we are looking through a dark-colored lens?

See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness.

Luke 11:35 (NIV)

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Am I viewing this situation, circumstance, or person through the light of Christ or through a dark lens, devoid of Christ?

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When Jesus had finished speaking [these words] a Pharisee invited him to eat with him; so he went in and reclined at the table. But the Pharisee was surprised when he noticed that Jesus did not first wash before the meal.

Luke 11:37-38 (NIV)

Then the Lord said to him, “Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.

Luke 11:39-41 (NIV)