KEEP YOUR EYES ON GOD, NOT ON GOLD
Matthew 6:22-23 (NKJV)
_”The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 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!”_
Job 22:24-25 (NKJV)
_”Then you will lay your gold in the dust, and the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks. Yes, the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver.”_
Jesus teaches a profound truth when He speaks about the eye as the lamp of the body. The eye represents focus, desire, and direction. Whatever a person consistently looks at eventually governs their life. When the eye is fixed on God, the whole life is filled with light. But when the eye is fixed on wealth, possessions, and material gain, darkness quietly takes over, even when outward success is visible.
An evil eye is not merely about envy; it is about misplaced priority. It belongs to a heart anchored on money instead of God. Such a life is measured by profit and loss rather than obedience and faithfulness. Decisions are shaped by financial advantage, not divine instruction. Integrity weakens, convictions bend, and the voice of heaven grows faint because gold has become the loudest counsellor.
Jesus warns that darkness can present itself as light. A person may feel wise, justified, or successful, yet be spiritually disconnected. When money dictates values, relationships suffer, worship becomes inconvenient, and obedience is delayed until it feels financially safe. At that point, wealth ceases to be a tool and becomes a master.
God calls His people to a higher way of living. There are moments when obedience will require walking away from profit. Such moments reveal who truly occupies the throne of the heart. Money must never become a source of identity, control, or manipulation. A person’s worth is not defined by possessions, titles, or accounts.
Society often assigns honour to wealth, but heaven measures honour by intimacy with God. A man may drive an expensive car, but the deeper question remains: what is driving the man? When we remove our eyes from God and place our confidence in unstable systems, we expose ourselves to disappointment. Gold can fail, businesses can collapse, but God remains faithful. Those who keep their eyes on Him will never lack direction, provision, or preservation.
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