Keep Looking Up
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Where is your focus? Are you looking forward and upward to what matters and is of eternal consequence? Are you looking at kingdom things that are with God?
What we focus our attention and affections on matters deeply and is of eternal consequence.
In his letter to the Colossians, the Apostle Paul wrote about the aim of focus for the people of God, saying, “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.” (Colossians 3:1, ESV).
If our focus is on the stuff of this world, we will inherit a worldly perspective and what the world has to offer. However, if we focus on God and his kingdom, we will receive God and God’s kingdom perspective, and what God and his kingdom has to offer.
Because of the resurrection of Jesus, we can live his resurrection life. As people of God’s resurrection life, we are to seek the things that are above where Jesus is.
May we always be looking upward to the resurrection life that God has for us.
A Collect for the Renewal of Life: “O God, the King eternal, whose light divides the day from the night and turns the shadow of death into the morning: Drive far from us all wrong desires, incline our hearts to keep your law, and guide our feet into the way of peace; that, having done your will with cheerfulness during the day, we may, when night comes, rejoice to give you thanks; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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