Today I had a relaxing day off and was able to keep finishing a book I started a while ago called Crazy Love by Francis Chan (Check out the book here). Anyway, as I was reading I came to this paragraph:
Has your relationship with God actually changed the way you live? Do you see evidence of God's kingdom in your life? Or are you choking it out slowly by spending too much time, energy, money, and thought on the things of this world?(pg. 65)
It is funny how the Lord drills things into you when He wants you to get it. I was teaching this last week in Outlet to the Junior Highers and this is what the Lord taught us coming out of Colossians 3:1-4:
So if you're serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don't shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that's where the action is. See things from his perspective.(The Message)
The thing I wanted us to take away this last weekend was to set our minds on things above. If we are to just look around and even into our own lives we would probably see a world consumed in itself; consumed in material things. I couldn't help but think about my own life. There are so many things I get excited about... like the new iphone, or some other thing. Then there is so many things I worry about.. like what I am going to do later on tonight or what I am going to save my money for next. I get so distracted with what is right in front of me, that I lose perspective of why I am here. All I know is the Lord is challenging me to take a new perspective. He is pushing me to look up from my selfish bubble and see the world like He sees it. I don't want to just be another great guy that loves the Lord, but a man after God's own heart. A man that sees from God's perspective. A man that has the self control to say no in order to set my mind on things above. Set your mind on things above...look up and see what God sees.
If you have never heard of Francis Chan, Watch this video. He is an amazing speaker:
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