In a figurative sense, my eye brings light to my body. I can think of my eye as a window through which light enters my being.

“The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light: but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness” (34).

When I think of a single eye, I think of an eye with a single focus.

In other words, it isn’t a wandering eye.

It knows what is good and right and pure, and stays focused on that.

I imagine a single eye as a loyal eye. It has determined not to stray from Jesus. (And when it does stray — which will happen — it returns promptly.)

That kind of eye keeps the entire person in the Way.

I want both of my eyes to be single.

from Luke 11:31

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