There is a simplicity of the life...."If my eye is single it is full of light"; if it's anything else but a single sight of Jesus, it is evil..... A verse that lines up in my mind with that and is much the same is in Romans 14:23, the last phrase of the last verse. It says it in another connection but we can pick it out I think quite fairly and make it a general statement: "For whatsoever is not of faith is sin." Well faith is seeing Jesus, of course. We have the faith of Jesus for we see Jesus. Of course we do. Faith is believing Jesus, seeing Him in our hearts, and knowing Him. That's believing Jesus. So faith is seeing Jesus. "Whatsoever is not of faith is sin" is the same idea. The moment I am not seeing Jesus in a situation, the moment I am not seeing Christ in my neighbour (as Brother Thompson told us in an earlier meeting), the moment I am not seeing Christ in a crisis, or Christ in a difficulty, I am sinning because it's not of faith. I'm not seeing Jesus; I'm seeing something else. That's evil. Not to see Jesus is evil. That's big! I've got to see Jesus in every one of my neighbours. I've got to see Jesus potentially even in the lost, those for whom, though there was only one on earth, He would have died.
I've got to see Jesus in every circumstance, not a single circumstance but that it's Jesus coming to me. That, I take it, is what Paul meant when he made that terrific statement around which I circle in my mind again and again and wonder at: "To me, to live is Christ." That doesn't leave much else, does it? "To me, to live is Christ." That's a single eye. Every circumstance, every person is just Christ to him. That's this life. Anything less than that is sin, because it veils Him.