so today i am going to revert back to monday’s post…and i would like to bring up the passage that it caused me to think about and then i just had to go read through it and chew on it for a little while…
Philippians 3:12-21…12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. 15 All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. 16 Only let us live up to what we have already attained. 17 Join with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you. 18 For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
i read through this passage several times and there were six words that just stuck out to me for whatever reason…”their mind is on earthly things“…and i’ve been challenged that no matter what situation i find myself in or who/what i’m even looking at with my eyes…i have to make sure that my mind is not on earthly things…i have to make sure that i am seeing the situation or the people or the things around me through God’s eyes…i have to have my mind on His kingdom and seeing His kingdom come to the world around me…
i have to say this is a definite struggle for me…too often i see through the eyes of my job…or through the rear-view mirror at things in the past…but i have to stay focused…
what about you…
where’s your mind???
