69. Full of Light
Luke 11:34, 36 When thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light;…the whole shall be full of light.
This is a conditional promise: if your eye is single, then your body is full of light. The promise is based on the truth that “your eye is the lamp of your body,” v. 34. This is based on the fact that the eye receives light from the world outside and transfers the light into the body so that we see, thus the eye is the lamp of the body. It receives light and fills with light.
The condition is that the eye should be single; single means clear and healthy. Spiritually it means the reception of the gospel (the light) without blurring and distortion and fogging. When the Gospel is received simply and plainly in an honest and good heart it has the power to fill the life with light. Jesus is the light; He calls us the light of the world, for the light (Jesus) is in us and shines out of us. What makes the eye not simple is additions to the plain Gospel, like my good works, my decision, my prayers, or anything else except Jesus alone doing it all for us.
When a clear and single faith in Christ receives the Gospel the whole self will be full of the Gospel. Repentance and forgiveness is continually applied to the inside, and apology and forgiveness is continually applied to others on the outside. This is the power of the Gospel to change lives from the inside out and affect the relationships with which we live. This is being “full of light.”