And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast [it] from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire. Matthew 18:9 NKJV
Wednesday Evening
Husband: How was your day?
Wife: Good, but I have a headache. I need to put my contacts back in. Would you please do it for me?
(Giving her a look)
Husband: When are you going to learn how to do it yourself?
Wife: I know how to do it, but you do it faster, and my eyes don't get all irritated. Besides that, with these fingernails, I can't do it.
Husband: Don't blame it on the fingernails. You couldn't do it before, either.
Wife: Yes, I could. Now would you quit giving me a hard time, and just put them in for me, please?
(They go into the bathroom and he puts them in.)
(A couple hours later)
Wife: Babe, this right contact is really bothering me. I can't stand it any longer. Would you take it back out? I'll just leave the left one in, and I can put the right one back in tomorrow.
(He takes it out without saying a word.)
Thursday afternoon
Wife is visiting her parents and the subject of contacts comes up. While discussing the contacts and how they are worn, etc. The left eye becomes irritated and starts to water. It feels like there is something in her eye- besides the contact.
Thursday Evening:
Husband: How was your day?
Wife: Good but I have a headache again. I think it was because I went all day with only one contact in.
Husband: I thought you were going to put the other one in?
Wife: I was going to, but didn't want to bother. Now my left one has been bothering me all day, to top it all off. Would you just take it back out?
Husband: (Giving her the look again.) Come on.
(In the bathroom)
Husband: Well move your eye, so I can get a hold of it!
Wife: I'm trying, but you're not holding it open enough.
Husband: Well I would, if you'd help me out a little.
Wife: Oh, that feels better!
Husband: What do you mean? I don't have it.
Wife: Well you must have, because it feels better than it did.
Husband: Let me see. I can't see it in there.
Wife: You must have dropped it.
Husband looking all over his self and the floor and counter. Wife helps. They don't find it after about 30 minutes of looking.
About 5 hours later
Wife: Boy, my eye feels better than it did, but it won't quit watering. And it itches over in the corner, a lot!
Wife looks in the mirror. She holds up her eyelid, because she's beginning to suspect she may have gotten pink eye or something. As she looks in the upper outside corner of her eye, she sees something.
Wife: Honey, look at this! (She sticks her fingernail to the corner of her eye and drags it along the bottom lid. Out comes a folded up contact! It was stuck in her eye all along!)
Yes, the Wife is me! I went five hours yesterday with my contact irritating my eye, because I couldn't see it. Which of course, made me think of the above verse.
Besides being about eyes, how are they related, you ask? Well, to me, having your eye irritated, but not being able to see that which is causing the irritation, is a lot like being blind to the sin in your life. Paying attention to what is going on in your life, and what you do on a daily basis, in relation to your spiritual life, will keep you from having to pluck out your eye. This is precisely what I wish to do today. My eye is swollen and needs some help. Our spiritual lives sometimes need help too. Read your bible, pray to your Heavenly Father, that you can see the sin in your life. I will be meditating on this today. I pray my story helps you to meditate on it as well. Blessings to you!
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