Your Mind Guides Your Life

 

“Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.”

—Colossians 3:2a

Many places in Scripture the writers remind us that the way we think, the things we think about, the way we focus our minds all have a profound effect on our lives. If we think negative thoughts, negative actions follows. If we think positive thoughts, positive actions follow.

Then there is always the smart alec who says, “I was positive I would fail!” And, just as he said, so he did—he failed miserably.

Taking just one familiar passage from the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Christians gathered in Colosse, as recorded in Colossians 3:1-3, we read the following good advice:

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. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

Thus, we need to focus our minds on positive, heavenly things. Not so that we can escape from the daily grind here on earth. But, rather, so that we can bring heaven home with us to dwell with us and become the reality in which we live our daily lives.

 

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