We must know that a wrong interpretation of the scriptures will produce a wrong revelation and ultimately a wrong application of the same. The accuracy of interpretation is dependent on the level of light accessible to/by the inquirer. Jesus said the following in Luke 11:34-36, …34Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your vision is clear, your whole body also is full of light. But when it is poor, your body is full of darkness.
35Be careful, then, that the light within you is not darkness.
36So if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it in darkness, you will be radiant, as though a lamp were shining on you.”…
I have come to realize that blindness is not the absence of the organ of vision called the eye, but rather that the person sees darkness instead of light and so his vision is said to be impaired. Jesus therefore said when your eye is good i.e. sees light (vision) your whole existence is full of light but when your eye is poor i.e sees darkness, your whole existence is full of darkness.
When Jesus said that the eye is the lamp of the body, he was actually using It metaphorically to refer to the eye of the mind or in other words, the faculty of knowing. And so when Paul prayed for the church in Ephesians, he asked that God will illuminate the eye of their understanding (Eph. 1:17-19). Which means that blindness could also be as a result of the organ of vision being covered or veiled. Consequently, the best the individual can see is behind the veil and not the object he really desires to see but when illumination comes, the understanding of that man is opened. Maybe this can answer the question of why there are so many Christians in the world today and yet there is gross darkness everywhere. Could It be that the light in many believers is darkness?
In this line therefore, Jesus warned us in Matt. 6:23 that .. if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! Hence, the need to be careful that the light in us is not darkness. This also highlights the possibility of the fact that one could be deceived into thinking he is seeing well just because he has eyes when in actual sense his eye is bad. As believers therefore, we must know that the means by which we look at the scriptures must be clear, devoid of darkness, in order to be able to interpret accurately what the scripture is saying.
To be continued... Watch out for the next post as we delve deeper into how to develop clear vision (good eye) for the scriptures (the bible).
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