Understanding

Matthew 6:22-23 New King James Version (NKJV):
 
22 The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
 
Verses such as these made me want to learn Greek and Hebrew.  I hope that your reading of these verses immediately communicate layers of revelation knowledge but reading them made no sense to me.  So, I read them in different bible versions and read  commentaries of experts...nothing.
 
Then came a revelatory moment.  The lamp of the body is the eye can refer to how we see things.  We use the word 'see' all the time to mean understand.  If we understand something through God's love (our eye being good), that understanding will be worked out through the whole of our life bringing the glory of His love to earth.  However, if we have been deceived into a viewpoint that does not recognize God's love (eye is bad), the more that viewpoint is worked out through our life, the more the deception feeds on itself (great is that darkness).   
 
That understanding flew off the page at me one day as I read those 2 verses.  And that's just one layer of many possible layers of understanding that I believe can be found in any lesson of the Bible.  

I no longer think that my understanding of God's Word is limited because I haven't studied Greek and Hebrew (though I respect those who have).  The Holy Spirit is an amazing teacher who leads us into revelation knowledge of God.  The Word of God is a living book and its life is meant to be imparted to those who seek it.
 
Referring to the Israelites teaching their children God's words, Deuteronomy 6:7 reads, "You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up."  This is often how I see the Holy Spirit teaching me about God.  It doesn't always have to involve hours of study (though I love to study), but can be simply paying attention to the teacher as I go about my day. 
 
I love this life - Leah