“Jesus tells us that ‘The eye is the lamp of the body.’ He says this right after warning us ‘not to lay up treasures on earth but in heaven,’ and right before saying we ‘cannot serve God and money.’ Is there a direct connection between what we set our eyes on and what becomes our desire, attracts us, and eventually becomes our drive in life?”

If you have raced with runners and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, what will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?

There is hardly a better apology for the state of weakness on the pages of the Bible. In a world and culture that extolled power and success (always a pagan obsession), the apostle Paul embraced everything that made his life miserable.

“The warning is clear and so relevant for our days: it is possible to be so engaged in normal, daily activities; to be so distracted by news and events; so busy pursuing hobbies and inoffensive passions, that we become numb to the prophecies, careless about the times we are living… and That Day of Judgement catches us surprise.”

“…the seed is the Word of God and the sower spreads the seeds wherever he goes. Not all of them bear fruit and even the ones that fall into good soil bear different amounts of fruit, but this does not discourage the sower. He knows what he has is precious and worthy of being distributed.”