“And God raised us up
with Christ and seated us
with him in the
heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,”
Ephesians 2:6
“Set your minds on
things above, not on earthly things.”
Colossians 3:10
If you and I are
raised up with Christ and seated with Him in the heavenly realms then we ought
to have our thoughts on the things of the Kingdom and not on things of the
earth.
There’s an old saying
that someone “can be so heavenly minded that they’re no earthly good.”
While it may sound ‘good’
it just doesn’t stack up with the truth.
When our hearts and minds
are focused on Christ and the things of His Kingdom it can only enhance our
lives here on earth and not detract from it.
To say otherwise is
to make God and His word untrue.
We know that cannot
be!
The mind fixed on Him
is a mind at perfect peace.
The mind set on
things above is a mind not distracted by things below.
It seems so often our
mind wants to be pulled to yesterday or tomorrow.
Yesterday tries to pull
our thoughts back to relive what ‘should have been’.
Tomorrow too often beckons
us to jump ahead and miss the ‘now’ moments of God.
Don’t let your
thoughts be apprehended by yesterday or tomorrow.
Instead let them be
captivated by Christ.
Perhaps the question can be best posed this
way:
If my thoughts are
captive to something or someone wouldn’t I be far better off to make the choice to surrender them to
Christ?
I find it valuable that the scriptures don’t
instruct me to let my mind wander and be a ‘free’ thinker but rather to set my
mind on things above.
What will captivate
your thoughts today?
What will you set your mind on?
I encourage you to
let it be Christ!
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