Thoughts for another day

February 14, 2012

Today's verse: Col. 3:2. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Being children of God, what're the things playing on our minds?  Are they that pertain to our well being and our needs and our desires alone?  Or, are they also things pertaining to God, for example, our intense desire to serve Him and proclaim His Gospel to the world, or even pray regularly that His work be accomplished?  Do we have room for Him in our mindscape?  Do we desire to see His Kingdom come in its glory on earth?  Are our actions tuned to things of God or are they tuned to our things alone? 

I know many Christians whose only desire in life is to earn money and earn enough of it to live well.  Their lives are dictated by this desire and they work according to it.  They earn money, then they invest it in various things, even in property and such things that count for nothing before God.  The more they earn, the more they want to earn; and they strive harder to do it and in this process joy eludes them and although they put up a façade of happiness, inside their guts are wrenched with worry.  Barely do they remember the Words of Jesus, 'for a man's life consists not in the abundance of the things he possesses Lk. 12:15.  Then there're the others, pseudos I call them, who are smug with the pretense that they're always with God.  Oh, they always talk to people about God and are so re-assuring, but they barely give time to Him, leave alone do His work!

Our Scripture today reminds us that our affinities must belong to things that're above and not things of the earth for they don't gain much for us.  That we need to have money, for a home say, even a good home, food, clothing, etc. God knows, but they shouldn't form the crux of our lives so that our attention is fully on them and God is completely off our radar except for the stingy obligatory stuff we do now and then and on feast days.  Remember, when we do that which pleases God, He adds unto us things we couldn't even believe we could possess, for He to whom we owe our allegiance is also the One who provides exceedingly abundantly, beyond that we can think or imagine.