Psalm 32:8 “I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.”

Colossians 1:27 “To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:”

1 John 4:5-7 “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.”

The eye of the Lord that guides us, spoken of in Psalm 32:8, is within us.  The word “glory” in Colossians 1:27 means opinion, judgment, or view. Glory is the view or vision and opinion or God, or the “eye of God”.  We have a hope of the eye of God with the “mystery” that is Christ in you. Where Christ means to be anointed; to be anointed by something of God which is the wisdom and judgment of God, as 1 John 4:5 says above, “greater is he that is in you”.

Genesis 3:7 “And the eyes of them both were opened…”

However we have two eyes (i.e. both from Genesis above, male & female), and one of them can become the “eye of God”. Our own two eyes represent the vision and knowledge through the tree of good AND evil. These two eyes also represent the spirit of truth and the spirit of error that he that is in us helps us decipher between (1John 4:7).

Proverbs 3:5-6  “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

What is “thine own understanding” spoken of in Proverbs 3:5?, how do we make all of our heart trust in him?, and how do we acknowledge him and come to know him in all our ways?

Colossians 2:8,14,16,&20 ”Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ….Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;… Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:…Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,…?”

Our “own” eyes or our carnal mind can understand the many things of this world, and agree with the traditions of men and religious man’s laws, ordinances, and ways. Our carnal mind can easily grasp the rudiments of the world (principles and laws) and completely agree with all of it, because it is the carnal mind of man which creates the ordinances and traditions of man in the first place; which come from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  However Colossians 2:8 says this is not the anointing of Christ, which means the ordinances of the world and of man are against the true nature of Christ, which is also in us. It says the ordinances need to be blotted out. The world’s ordinance may seem right to us because we have lived with them our entire carnal life and they are the way of the entire world; but they are not from Christ.

So how do these ordinances and tradition of man compare to our “own understanding” spoken of in Proverbs 3:5 above?

Proverbs 14:12 “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Proverbs 16:2 “All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits. Proverbs 21:2 “Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.

The word “man” here in Proverbs 14, 16, and 21 is the Hebrew word “iysh” which means male or husband in contrast to female or a human being.  The male or man side of us, when it is not anointed by the Spirit (i.e. Christ in you), represents our carnal mind. [For more information on this see previous posts on our true husband, Christ, and the male and female sides within us]. These above verses in Proverbs says that our carnal mind (i.e. “own eyes) may tell us it is correct, good, and true, but it in eyes of God or the Spirit, it is not (i.e. spirit of truth vs spirit of error).  There is way that seems right to our carnal literal law based mind, which represents our “own understanding” in Proverbs 3:5 , but it is not the way God would have us go. Our own understanding is contrary to the Spirit of God.  [Also see previous posts on that talk about the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil to explain this further (i.e. Jan 17, 2015, and others)].