Sunday, November 25, 2007

Sunday Again

It happened again this week. Sunday came and went. That means that tomorrow is Monday. With the help of couple friends, I have finished my second draft of a research paper about the electric guitar. Today, I heard about a guy's all-nighter with my church youth group, so a trip to wal-mart was in order to buy a nerf gun to defend myself against a friend who has a fully automatic nerf gun, which he plans to modify so that it runs on CO2. We had to go to Wal-Mart anyway to get a new ink cartrige for our printer, so it worked out rather nicely.
In Sunday school, we finally got back into Matthew after having been out of it for the last two weeks. It was a good message about keeping priorities straight. We also had an amazing conversation about Matt 6:21-23:

21 for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.22 "The lamp of the body is the eye; if therefore your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light.23 "But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!(NAS)

At first, these verses seem a little bit confusing, but when you look at the context, it's all made clear. In the previous and following verses, Jesus is talking about laying up our treasures in heaven, not on earth. What is being said here, then, is that what we look to and focus on will lead our whole body. If we look to finite or even sinful things, our lives will not be spiritually productive. But if we keep our eyes on Jesus, then our lives will show it.

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