Fixated.
What occupies you?
As you make your way through life what tends to grab your attention?
This thought has been drifting through my mind recently and caused me to reflect on this verse:
“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.” (Col 3:1-2 NIV)
There is a saying that going something like ‘being so heavenly minded not to be of any use.’ Something like that anyway, but it’s not true.
If we keep eyes fixed on stuff around us we become self centred. It may not always seem that way but we probably are; we just can’t help it. Our thoughts tend to be on us – how things impact us. Sure we can be charitable and the like but ultimately there is an element of self in it. My sister famously (will in my family anyway) admitted that the reason that she regularly gave blood was so that she felt good about herself; she would take pride in her ‘selfless’ act. I love the weirdness of my family – I love them to bits and feel so at home among them :o)
But with eyes on Christ we can become self denying. How? Because when we focus on him we become more like him, radiating his beauty in our lives and actions. If we are truly heavenly minded will can be of use to those around us, especially those who need us. Society has been changed by nobodies who were heavenly minded – free education, free health care, the abolition of slavery, the list goes on… all because people had their gaze on Christ first and foremost.
How do you become a nobody in your generation?
Watch Christ and copy him!
As you make your way through life what tends to grab your attention?
This thought has been drifting through my mind recently and caused me to reflect on this verse:“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.” (Col 3:1-2 NIV)
There is a saying that going something like ‘being so heavenly minded not to be of any use.’ Something like that anyway, but it’s not true.
If we keep eyes fixed on stuff around us we become self centred. It may not always seem that way but we probably are; we just can’t help it. Our thoughts tend to be on us – how things impact us. Sure we can be charitable and the like but ultimately there is an element of self in it. My sister famously (will in my family anyway) admitted that the reason that she regularly gave blood was so that she felt good about herself; she would take pride in her ‘selfless’ act. I love the weirdness of my family – I love them to bits and feel so at home among them :o)
But with eyes on Christ we can become self denying. How? Because when we focus on him we become more like him, radiating his beauty in our lives and actions. If we are truly heavenly minded will can be of use to those around us, especially those who need us. Society has been changed by nobodies who were heavenly minded – free education, free health care, the abolition of slavery, the list goes on… all because people had their gaze on Christ first and foremost.
How do you become a nobody in your generation?
Watch Christ and copy him!
- Andrew Carey
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