Matthew 6:19-24 19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
24No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. (Compare Luke 12:33-34).
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also-to have a heart in heaven means to be utterly devoted to the interest of Christ. Light (v.22) translates from RV as 'lamp'. The eye (v. 22). It stands here for interets, desires, ambitions, the direction in which the attention is attracted. the sentence means that these are an indication of the whole character of a man's life. Single (v.22); i.e. entirely devoted to the interest of Christ and the service of God. But if thine eye be evil (23); i.e. if the mind is set upon wrong things.For the use of the expression 'evil eye' see Deut. 15:9; Prov. 28:22. If therefore the light. . .be darkness (23); a graphic way of describing a heart which is dead to the things of God.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon (24). Double-mindedness is an impossible attitude; there can be no spiritual sitting on the fence. Service that is not whole-hearted is not the service of God at all Mammon is an Aramaic word meaning 'wealth' and stands here for money and worldly interests.
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