Single Eye; Day245

The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is sound, your entire body will be full of light.  But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very light in you [your conscience] is darkened, how dense is that darkness!  Mat 6:22 – 23

“This passage poses some difficulties in translation for the modern readers.  The King James talks about an eye which is “single” – and that is the meaning of the word in Greek.  It is variously translated “good,” “healthy,” or “clear.”  The medical point to the ancients is fairly obvious. An eye whose lens was clouded—by cataracts, for example—wasn’t much use in seeing things.  You wanted one image, and a clear one at that;  a “single” image.
If you didn’t have that, you were in a lot of trouble.  You could see just enough to get into trouble.
The same is true with the eye of the soul, the human understanding.  We use the phrase “I see” to mean “I understand.”  And if my understanding produces a double image, or a blurred image, then my soul suffers greatly, even though everything else is in order.  This eye is the light of understanding by which the soul sees God. 

How, then, can a man be of “single eye?”
Integrity.  Integrity means “oneness”- it comes from the same root word as “integer.”  If you have integrity, you are one person in spirit and action, heart and belief.

Simplicity.  How often we “adjust” our style of dealing with others based upon who the others might be!   We are smooth in dealing with the boss and harsh with the subordinates, foxy with our peers.  Simple honesty works better and takes less effort.

Purity.  We demand it in our foods and medicines but see no value for it in ourselves.  One heart, open and compassionate, with no deception in it—this the Lord desires.

Fidelity.  It means faithfulness.  It means to be the husband of one wife (and not looking for another playmate).  It means to stick with your friends, your church, your country through the tough times as well as the good times.  Fidelity is faithful not because it is profitable, but because it is right.  One wife, one God—faithful to both.
Have you ever met a man like that?  I hope so.  This is the kind of man we like to do business with—we know he won’t cheat us, and any defects of product or workmanship will be made good.  This is the kind of man you hope your daughter brings home to introduce to Daddy.  Such men are hard to find, but there is a good method for locating them.  Be one, yourself.  Then the eye of the soul will recognize the others quickly. “

MIT (Most Important Task)
1. 5Mile Time Trial
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3. Read-Fifth Discipline, p168 [info]
4. Read-When Panic Attacks, p52
5. Read-Exchange2007 Training Kit, p159 [ebook]

0500, Breakfast; journal; 5Mile Time Trial
0600, Leave for work
1200, Lunch
1900, Dinner
2000, Read
2200, Sleep