The Apple Of His Eye

Come, sit, and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee in the comfort of the Lord:  "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice."  Ephesians  4:31

                                         "Keep me as the apple of the eye."   Psalm  17:8

     None of the five senses is as precious as the sense of sight.  Blindness is one of the greatest misfortunes of life.  For this reason the Creator of the eye has protected it in a most careful and unusual way.  The eyes are placed deep into sockets, surrounded by a wall of hard bone.  In addition they are protected by eyelids, which completely cover the eye when danger approaches.  On these eyelids are the hairy eyelashes to catch dust and other fine objects, and then, most wonderful of all, there is a system of perpetual irrigation or "washing."  The tear glands secrete a soothing, salty solution which keeps the eye moist and clean at all times. To keep the eyes from blurring and the tears from running over, there are provided little channels or "tear ducts" which drain the cleansing fluid into the nose.  All this illustrates how precious is the eye, and how the Creator has provided for its protection.

     The Bible compares us to the eyes of God.  Concerning Israel it says,  "He kept him as the apple of his eye"  (Deuteronomy 32:10).  In Zechariah  2:8 God says concerning His people,  ". . . he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his (the Lord's) eye."  David prays in our text,  "Keep me as the apple of the eye" (Psalm 17:8).  The word "apple" in the Hebrew means literally the "little man."  We can thus read:  "I will keep you as the 'little man' of my eye."  God's eye is on the "little man."  No matter how obscure and forgotten you may be as a humble believer, the Lord watches over you every moment.  Someone has observed that coal miners, after a whole day underground, come out with their entire faces black with dust; but there are two spots on their faces just as clean as when they went in in the morning - their eyes.  Amid all the dirt and filth of this old world the Lord can keep us as clean as the "apple of the eye."  Read and consider our memory verse for today.  "He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?  he that formed the eye, shall he not see?"  (Psalm  94:9).

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