Matthew Chapter 6

"22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, 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 that darkness!"

In English there's a saying that goes "The eye is the window to the soul", and I believe the foundation of that saying is probably from this verse. It is so true. What we see will form an image in our brain. The image in our brain will become our thoughts. Thoughts in turn can turn into actions especially if played in the brain repeatedly. It is especially tough in today's world to keep our body full of light because of the many things we see unexpectedly. If there was TV, the shows and commercials may show inappropriate scenes that are damaging to our body. In USA, I know many commercials are based upon sexual appeal. Even though the actors are not revealing anything, but the scene implies something sexual to the viewers. I heard in Germany that after a certain hour in the evening, their are dirty shows for adults.

With these darkness so readily available to damage our eyes, sometimes it becomes difficult to keep our bodies full of light and not of darkness. Even with Movies and their ratings, we cannot be fooled, because afterall, who rated the movies? Men. Even with cartoons today, many of them have subtle sexual implications. I believe if God were to rate the movies, most of them will be banned and non-producible. We may become oddballs in the society if we haven't watched the latest and greatest movie, but because of that we may be shiny lights for God. That is not to say there are no movies that are watchable, but they are 1 in a million. We can better assess the content by reading the ratings to see what type of damages it can do. There is also a Christian website which rates the movies based on faith with warnings at the end and a recommendation on whether to watch or not to watch. I'm sure even with this faith-based rating, we have to do assessments ourselves. Some movies will still not be appropriate and strike a cord with our individual weaknesses. If one's weakness is violence of sexual contents, then one should stay away from all movies that has even a hint of violence or sexual content to avoid being tempted. If abstaining from movies is difficult, then let this website be a reference in picking one out. http://www.crosswalk.com/movies/archives/

On the flip side, to keep our body with light, we must feed our eyes with light. I'm sure everyone has been getting their share of this light everyday for almost this whole week now :). Not only that, enough to go around and share with others. Let's keep shining for God and for each other by keeping our bodies full of light.