Day 300 Focus Your Single Eye on Jesus Christ

In Matthew 5:13, Jesus tells his followers that they are the salt of the earth, and in the same sentence offers a warning that savorless salt is good for nothing. Join me in an attempt to be savory salt as I share each day one verse of scripture and one small thought. Perhaps this small daily emphasis can lead to greater savor in your life, and ultimately you and I can be savory salt.

Hello, my friends and family, wherever you're listening from. Thank you for joining me and know that I'm cheering for your every success. Here's one from the personal growth world: "Where your focus goes, your energy flows." What does Jesus Christ have to say about that?

And welcome to Day 300 on our 365-day journey through the Book of Mormon together. Today's perfect timing because we are also 80% complete with the Book of Mormon. Well done sticking with that process and going through just a little bit every day.

We are definitely on the downslope as we hit the last 20% of the Book of Mormon and still have so much amazing, incredible content to go through. Today, you're going to be reading 3rd Nephi chapter 13, verses 19 through 24. You finish that chapter, and then you're going to begin 3rd Nephi chapter 14, verses 1 through 9.

Let's dive into our verse for today. It's going to be surrounded by Christ's conversation about your treasure and the things that you focus on in life. And then it's also going to be around this concept of serving two masters.

And we land right in the middle of that with this verse today in 3rd Nephi chapter 13, verse 22. It says, "The light of the body is the eye. If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." Now, you got to follow the footnote of single here.

And as you do so, you head over to Doctrine and Covenants. The more we are focused, the more our eye is focused on the light of Jesus Christ, the more that body fills with the light of Jesus Christ. And I love this principle because around it, as he's talking about where our treasures are, he's talking about the tangible treasures and the collections of the earth and making sure that we have enough stuff, and we have enough things, and we have enough money, and we have all these things in our lives.

And he says, "Hey, those things—those things are going to corrupt." They're going to gather moths and rust. They're going to get old and they're just going to sit there and end up falling apart. Whereas, what are these things we could focus on that are more intangible in nature?

And that's where we get into our relationship with Christ and our focus on being more like Him in our lives. I love this one because I've seen this in my life in so many different times and places. I know, and I can tell you that when I am more focused on the things I can do to increase my relationship with Jesus Christ—the more I focus on those things—the more the other things really do tend to take care of themselves.

And if we reverse that, or inverse that, the more I get focused in the hullabaloo and the chaos of day stuff, and I got to do these things, and I got to do these things, the more my life just seems cluttered up. So I want to take your focus today to the light of Jesus Christ. "The light of the body is the eye." My friends, what are you focused on? That is a question worth taking some time to think into.

What are you focused on? What are you inviting in your life? I certainly hope, and I can tell for those of you that stick around and listen inside the episode here, you're trying to focus more on Christ.

Well done. And your 80% reading through the Book of Mormon is well on the way. Keep doing it.

Keep digging in. I'm happy for you. Excited for you.

Well done for hitting Day 300 and 80% of the Book of Mormon. That's all for today, my friends. Remember that "by small and simple things are great things brought to pass." Keep it small, keep it simple, and always seek to be savory salt. I'll be here tomorrow, and I hope you are too.