If your eye is healthy ...

Today's Reading: Luke 11:33-36

Luke 11:34  Your eye is the lamp of your body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light; but if it is not healthy, your body is full of darkness.

I am assuming that "your eye" is not referring to our physical eye, but rather how we see the world. It could refer to what we lust over, or desire, but for today it strikes me that it is more about how we look at things.
In today's culture there is this kind of hysteria over being offended by others.  We have become a culture of judgement.  We spend too much of our time and energy accusing others of offending us.  What we see is not healthy at all.  What we see is threatening and offensive.  
But, Jesus didn't say that what we see is the problem.  Jesus puts it on our eye. It is how we see more than what we see.  He didn't say the world was full of darkness, but rather our body is full of darkness when our eye is unhealthy. For that matter, he didn't even say our body was full of darkness by itself.  Only when our eye is unhealthy.
I think we need to spend more time and energy on the way we see rather than what we see. It was said in our Sunday School class this last Sunday that more Christians killed other Christians during the Reformation than there were Christians killed by the Romans in the first century.  Is this because Christians need to be killed?  Or is it because they didn't see each other as brothers and sisters in Christ?  Isn't it because of how they see?  And you have to ask yourself if we aren't on the verge of that today.  The way we attack and accuse each other, looks a lot like the days of the Reformation.  The difference is the issue is not religious conformity as much as it is political.

Father, help me by your Holy Spirit to see with healthy eyes, that I may see my brother and sister and not get hung up on what they say and do as an excuse to attack and accuse.  Amen