The eyes are the windows to the soul. Seeing is believing. Every time we watch a movie or see a commercial on TV or look at an advertisement on a billboard someone is trying to sell us something. Someone is trying to make us believe something. Advertisements are attempting to convince you that your current financial or material position is less than acceptable.

In Matthew 6:19 – 24 Jesus says…

19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! 24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Over the last few weeks we learned that:

  1. Your treasure is what you fix your eye upon and what your eye is fixed upon becomes your master. 19-24
  2. If you treasure earthly things then you treasure rotten things and rotten things make you sick. 19
  3. If you store up treasure in Heaven then you are investing in living things instead of rotten things. 20
  4. The visible behaviors of your life point to the invisible desires of your heart. 21

The question is: What do you treasure? Do you treasure money or do you treasure Christ?

People say that the eyes are the windows to the soul. In other words you can tell the condition or the health of someone’s soul by what they are focused upon. Jesus says the same thing in verses 22 – 23 when he says, “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!” In other words… we need to examine what our eyes are fixed upon. We need to ask if our eyes are focused upon things that are of the light or of the darkness because the eyes are the windows to the soul.

We live in a time when good is called evil and evil is called good. Where darkness is celebrated as light. Where light is rejected as evil. Yet if you’ve believed the gospel, then you are called to think and live differently. If you’ve placed your hope in Jesus who is the light of the world then you are called to be a shining light of the gospel through the mountaintop of your life in a dark and twisted world.

The eyes are the windows to the soul. Seeing is believing. Every time we watch a movie or see a commercial on TV or look at an advertisement on a billboard someone is trying to sell us something. Someone is trying to make us believe something. Advertisements are attempting to convince you that your current financial or material position is less than acceptable. Look at yourself in your old car and see your future in this new car. Look at yourself in that old house and see yourself in a preferable future in your newly remodeled home. Look at the guy who makes better money than you and see yourself in a better place with a bigger paycheck. Look at the hell you live in now and see the new heaven you could live in if you only take this step of faith & spend this money.

The eyes are the windows to the soul. What are your eyes fixed upon? Do you have a healthy picture in your mind’s eye of how money & material wealth are meant to advance the kingdom of God? Or do you have a picture in your mind’s eye of how money and material wealth are meant to advance your own personal kingdom? What are you willing to sacrifice for your preferred picture of heaven to come true? What longings and cravings are present in your heart right now? What are your eyes fixed upon? The eyes are the windows to the soul. “Your treasure is what you fix your eye upon and what your eye is fixed upon becomes your master”.