The eye of the body is our mind. Our mind enlightens our body, our soul and our whole life.
The essence of the mind is in the heart and we need to care our heart stays pure, not to allow any impurities to enter in it, and get rid of those we already have acquired and are slaves to.
We should strive to enlighten our mind, to be purified so that we can see the things and circumstances around us properly and act and live properly. But if our eye is darkened, then our whole body, soul and our whole life will be dark. Everything that we will perceive will be darkened and incorrect. we look through that eye, namely, through that darkness for which we think, and are even convinced, is the brightness. Due to this, everything around us is dark. This means that our eye, which is our mind, is darkened and our heart is full of passion and is bloted by passions, and that is when we see the world through our passions and we cannot recognise the Truth, we cannot see the true brightness and true enlightenment, the true gist.
The heart can become pure with humility, love, the virtuous sacramental life in the Church, fasting, confession, communion and physical struggle, thus our heart is slowly freed from the passions and our mind enlightens so that we see bright and clean, and by then we should obey our spiritual Father and we should have only one purpose in life, which is the most important, and that is to seek the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of God is, as the Lord said, in our heart and this is why we need to take care for our heart. Do not worry about what you will eat and drink and how you dress and what others think of you, but care about the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and God will move into us and He will be the light in our life and everything we see will be our light.
Otherwise, when we do not care for the purity of our hearts, but care about the passions of this world and life then those passions will enter our heart and our heart will be captured by them, and thus the light of our mind will be dark and everything that we do and think will go through the prism of that particular passion. If someone is caught by the passion of dissoluteness then he/she will think of how to satisfy that passion. If someone is caught by the passion of drunkenness and overeating, he/she will think about that passion all the time. If someone is caught by the passion of avarice that person will only think of how to get more wealth, money and how to buy and sell. But only pagans can do that, those who do not know God. We, who know God, have to direct our whole life to acquire the Heavenly Kingdom that is eternal and priceless.
Therefore we should first seek the Kingdom of Heaven, and everything that is His will become ours and He will care for us. However, God rebukes us for our weak faith, thus we need to increase our faith, our love and our obedience to God because we cannot serve two masters.
God, who is our creator, will take care of us. He will give us what we need. If God is Lord of all things visible and invisible and He takes care of birds, animals and plants, even decorates the flowers in the meadow, and as He says: And yet I say onto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these, and we will understand His words and we will live according to His commandments. We should not doubt that what we will not get what we need. God rebukes us for our weak faith, because we need to increase our faith, love and our obedience to Him.
However, it is sad that not living as such, we show that we are blind. That blindness of ours cannot be cured by shopping, markets, beauty salons and by different delights of the wide road and comforts of this world and fulfilling our passions, and by this we darken our eye even more and even more our eye becomes blind to these words, which are salvaging and essential for us: …But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added onto you.
Therefore, our mind should be directed, have a goal. It should not be directed to many pathways of this century but it should be directed to the Kingdom of God.
If we really seek God and His kingdom, then what more do we need? That is when we’d trully have everything. Absolutely everything. When we become His Children, this is when He will be our Father and everything that is His will become ours and he will care for us. However, we can notice that we don’t want what we need, but we want more than that. This is where our worries, nervousness, mutual intolerances and hatred come from. And this is why our Lord says: « No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the oher. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.» Namely, we cannot serve this world, with its criterias, and with the people that dictate its tempo and style, and concurrently serve God.
Because of this, God advices us that firstly we have to Love God and his commandments, considering He is consistant and eternal, and our soul, namely man itself is made from God, also made for God and to be with God. However, this cannot be reached by living in luxury, but before all with repentance, humble living in constant crying for our sins, in constant fight to clense our passions, with gracefull patience of willing and unwilling sorrows and suffering, namely, temptations and tribulations, with confession and sacrament and constant calling of the Lord’s name: Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me… This way, we will truly show that we love God with all of our hearts, and all of our minds and all of our souls and then we will let God into our hearts and we will inherit His kingdom that has been prepared for us.
