"Your eye is the lamp of your body."

This morning I read Luke 11, and was meditating on verse 36:

"Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be just as full of light as when a lamp shines its light on you." 

The Bible seems irrelevant to society because it was written so long ago, but the wisdom Jesus spoke 2,000 years ago still applies to our daily lives.  I know how it feels to walk in darkness.  There are always certain things you have to hide from certain people.  Parents can't know what you did last weekend.  Friends can't know what you did with that guy.  (Fill in the blank with your own situation.)  That was life, and since I didn't know anything else, it was normal for me.

We don't know how good something is until we understand how bad it was.  When I walked in darkness, it was fine because it was all I knew.  Now that my eyes have been opened to darkness AND light, things are much more clear.  No more secrets or hidden things...  It gives me so much freedom.  Jesus made me right with God- it was nothing I did on my own.  That produces a peace that flourishes through trial and temptation.  If darkness is all we know, then it doesn't seem dark- until light is revealed to us.  I remember a long time ago thinking, "If God was watching me, what would He say?"  Now I realize that He was speaking conviction into my heart.  I finally decided to stop ignoring it and start responding to it.