Sight👁️ and Insight:
One of the Al-Azhar men said to Dr. Taha Hussein, who was blind and was the Minister of Education at the time, "You, blind of sight😎, have come at the end of time to teach us," to which he replied: "Yes, I am blind of sight😎, but you are blind of insight."
The Eye:👁️ The human eye is one of its most important senses. It is not only to see what surrounds it or an entry point for information, but it is also a leader of the human journey and has the ability to guide a person in any direction.
Therefore, Christ affirms by saying, "The lamp of the body is the eye 👁️" (Luke 11:34).
He warned us not to let the light in us be darkness🌑, so that our whole life would not be darkness.🌚
The Eye and Its Danger: The eye👁️ was the cause of the pollution of some people's lives, like the prophet David, or complete destruction for them like Lot's wife, and it can also be a source of blessing for a person's life, like the eye open to the word of God, or the eye contemplating the works of God, or the merciful eye on the needy, or the eye looking to heaven.
The Christian's eye 👁️ has been sanctified by the anointing of the holy myron🕊️ to illuminate with the enlightenment of knowing God.
Here we see that there is a spiritual insight created in us by faith, baptism, and myron, and this spiritual insight grows in its capabilities just like the physical eye👁️. The physical eye begins by distinguishing light from darkness, then gradually acquires the skill of distinguishing people and colors, and then advances by distinguishing letters of language and colors.
Similarly, spiritual insight, when nourished by the divine thought from the Gospel, sanctified by prayer and meditation, and nurtured by the teachings of the church, becomes trained to discern good things, and through practice, their senses have become trained to distinguish between good and evil (Hebrews 5:14).
As a person grows in stature, wisdom, and grace, so does the Christian grow in grace and insight through spiritual nourishment and means of grace.
David the prophet says: My eyes are always on the Lord, for he will pluck my feet out of the net. (Psalm 24).
To you, I lift my eyes, O you who dwell in the heavens, our eyes are on the Lord our God until he has mercy on us (Psalm 122)…….