The heart, the eye and the lesson
Friday, 11th week ìn ordinary time
2 Cor 11:18,21-30; Mt 6: 19-23
Jesus speaks of the heart and the eye and the importance of these to a being. St. Paul presents himself as a madman who is putting himself through so many trials knowing well they lurk round the corner but still risking them all. We have hosts and hosts of martyrs who have died for what they believed in, Saints who lived for God and God's purposes till the last breath of their lives, and people who continue to risk their lives for causes they commit themselves to.
Where lies their strength? In their heart and in their eye, says the Word. Heart refers to their Priority and eyes to their Perspective!
When God becomes my priority, nothing else would matter to me more than being Godly. When God becomes my perspective my whole world changes, because I begin to see everything the way God sees them. What is expected of us thus is, we form our hearts and our eyes, that we ascertain our priority and clarify our perspective!