Luke 11:33-36
The Lamp of the Body
33"No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light. 34Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness. 35See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. 36Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be completely lighted, as when the light of a lamp shines on you."
There is a mystique about our Father...At times, it seems that He hides from us...Why don't He just write a message to the whole world in the sky that He is there...Better yet, He should shine a light in everyone's mind at the same time to show us He is near...Then we all would all know He is there...We would feel His presence...Then we would know that He is not hiding finding from us...We would see the LIGHT...
Jesus tells us no one puts a lamp in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl...No one, which includes our Father, lights a lamp and then covers it (especially Him)...Our LORD has lit us a lamp and He shines it, in His mystique...This mystique, is one of His attributes...God's people, when they wandered the desert with Him for forty years, would have seen his great power and mighty strength...I think, our Father, is so infinite and so complex, even when He was with His people and Moses for those forty years, there was this mystique about Him...His great complexity, His great infinity, His great Almightiness makes Him a mystique...Even one with great knowledge, like a Blaise Pascal, the great mathematician, we might say has a little mystique (about him)...Pascal was brilliant, very brilliant...He understood much more math and the physical sciences than I understand...I do not see how he took a mathematical theory and got to his endpoint equation...I just cannot understand...Yet he is only one of us on earth and like a grasshopper, when compared to our LORD (Isaiah 40:22)...Pascal, who also studied theology, says “In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.” ...Those who want to see the light, can see His light...The light is there...Those who do not want to see the light, will be blinded and not see Him...But the light is there and not hidden...
Jesus goes on here to teach us that it is our eyes that is the lamp to our body...When our eyes are good, our whole body is full of light...At those times God feels closer to us, we can almost sense Him...When we are bad and sinning, our body is then filled with a darkness and He no longer feels near...If our eyes are like those of Jesus, then our body will be completely lighted, (we can for an instant, see the light) as when the light of the lamp shines on you...Then we feel His presence, He then feels near...
Jesus is the lamp for our body and the light for our feet...We must seek Him and keep our eyes open in our search for Him, if we want to find our Father...No one gets to the Father except through Jesus (John 14:6)...Jesus helps us find the light...
We don't see the sky as our ancient ancestors did...They did see our LORD when they looked up at the nightly sky...Isaiah says just look up to the heavens (and you see Him)...Who created all these things?...Our Father brings out the starry hosts one by one and calls them each by name...Because of His great power and mighty strength not one of them is missing (Isaiah 40:25-26)...The great prophet knew He was near...He could look up to the sky and see Him...Isaiah could feel is mighty power and strength, His infinity...To Isaiah, He is Almighty...To Isaiah, He is near...
God sent His Son, who is life, and in that light is the light of men (1 John 1:15)...God is Light...Isaiah saw this light...Those who do not believe do not see this light...God is light...We have to understand how Almighty and wise He really is...He created the universe out of nothing...We hear that (about creation) but it is beyond our understanding, how this could have been done...He is so complex that awesome is only a small adjective for Him...He understands creation...He understands why there is pain and suffering...He understands why there is evil...He understands infinity...He understands everything in the entire universe...This is who He is...God is there in the heavens of the universe, and we are the ones who don't understand...We are the ones who cannot see this...This is who we are...God is not hiding from us, we are hiding from Him (because we do not yet understand, who He is)...When we get our whole bodies full of the Light and completely lighted, we will understand...Then the LIGHT will shine on us...