We need to see

Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.  This is one of her famous quotes as a deaf and blind person, "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision".  I found this very profound when I first read about her.  She also had a wonderful spiritual journey and in one of her reflections she says, "To one who is deaf and blind the spiritual world offers no difficulty. Nearly everything in the natural world is as vague, as remote from my senses, as spiritual things seem to the minds of most people. But the inner or mystic sense, if you like, gives me vision of the unseen. . . . ".  

Luke 11:34

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.

Jesus teaches about prayer in this chapter. He explains the deliverance of a person from demon possession and challenges the Jewish thinkers/leaders/lawyers of the time. A mere carpenter that is supposedly unlearned was presenting these deep spiritual ideas with such clarity and forceful arguments. They were accusing Him of using demonic powers to deliver people from demonic oppression and He rebutted this. There is some amazing discourse in this chapter that I would encourage you to read. You cannot find this of any other kind of "human" or holy man, because Jesus demonstrated how he is both God and human.

Luke 11:31-32

The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is here. The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here.

The only way you can start to understand these things is when you allow the light of God to enter in. You have eyes to see. Now, open them and see. You will see fascinating things in the Lord. In the darkness there is confusion, calamity and stress. With clarity in your eyes you will see everything about Jesus. And so you can say this prayer found at the beginning of this chapter as taught by Jesus and receive the light.

Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us day by day our daily bread.
And forgive us our sins,
For we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
And do not lead us into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one.”

Amen! We have received the light into our body.