"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
"The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is not sound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Matthew 6:19–24 (RSV)
'The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is not sound, your whole body will be full of darkness.'
In the middle of talking about wealth and treasure, Jesus offers us optometrical advice. We may be distracted by this apparent shift as we were taught to love God over all the world's material things. However, Jesus makes an important point about what wealth and treasure can do to our souls.
Our vision allows us to see the rich fulness of grace that is in Christ. It is not merely physical sight that allows this, but our spiritual gaze directed on Jesus only. The more we clutter our vision with things not of Christ, the less we will see Him.
If we leave this affliction of sight untended, we will, in time, dwell in darkness, forgetting that Jesus has come to be the light of our life. Here we are in danger of being enslaved to mammon in which there is no life.
Let us remember that Christ is the Light that banishes all darkness. It is Him alone we long to see and seeing Him; we will have the truest treasure.