SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/9/2017
8:19 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “The
Responsibility”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Colossians
3:1b-2
Message of
the verses: “keep seeking the things above, where Christ
is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on the things above, not
on the things that are on earth.”
Now that Paul has given the Colossian believers and also
those who read and study this passage about the reminder that is in the first
part of verse one, he goes on to talk about the responsibility that we have.
John MacArthur talks about the words “keep seeking” which
in the Greek are in the presence tense “zeteo.” This indicates a continuous action, something
we need to continually do. He writes “Preoccupation
with the eternal realities that are ours in Christ is to be the pattern of the
believer’s life. Jesus put it this
way: ‘Seek first His kingdom and His
righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you’ (Matt. 6:33).” What Paul is talking about here is not a form
of mysticism but rather what he is writing about is that the Colossian’s and
all believers is to be preoccupied with heaven will govern their earthly
response. So as we think about being
preoccupied with heaven we know that we are to be preoccupied with the One who
is in heaven. The God of heaven reigns
there and also on earth and His purposes, plans, provisions, and power are who
He is and therefore He is the One that we can trust to work out His plans and
purposes for us who belong to Him through the death of Jesus Christ who paid it
all. As believers we are to view things through the eyes of the Lord and that
means that we have to know things about the Lord and the only way we can do
that is to read and study His Word.
“The things above” speaks to the heavenly realm and hones
in on the spiritual values that characterize Christ, such as tenderness,
kindness, meekness, patience, wisdom, forgiveness, strength, purity, and love”
writes John MacArthur.
So what should happen to believers when they think on the
things above? We can truly enjoy the big
wide world that our Creator Father has made for us. Think about this as we ponder the creation
week. God made different things on
different days and then on the last day He made the animals and then He made
His prize creation, which of course is man.
God got everything ready on earth for man whom He created last and so
we, especially believers should think about His creation when we think on the
things above.
We will close our Sunday evening SD with words from a
hymn entitled “I Am His, and He Is Mine.”
“Heav’n above is softer blue
Earth around is sweeter green!
Something lives in every hue
Christless eyes have never seen:
Birds with gladder songs o’er flow
Flow’rs with deeper beauties shine,
Since I know, as now I know,
I am His, and He is mine.”
4/9/2017 9:15 PM
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