Mind your heart

Colossians 3:1-2 NIV

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.

There's a need again today to check our focus and our priorities. The world around us keeps getting complex and its desires and demands keep getting more and more weird by the day. Some generations ago, lesbianism was a taboo, a quiet word amongst its practitioners and sympathisers, now we have states with laws backing that practice. At a time, thieves robbed just for cash to feed and pay bills, now, they maim, rape and kill. The pursuit of wealth, power, position and properties has made us mindless, emotionless and cynical. We have replaced human interactions with a form of e-existence, preferring to pour out our angst and temper in the soulless and mindless terrain of the internet, rather than seeking to nurture human relationships and interactions.
While not trying to belittle the importance of these e-forums, I believe that God created us first to relate with ourselves. He placed man in the garden and gave him a partner. God would then come down every evening to talk with them. Why didn't he send an email? Why not write a letter?
Genesis 1:27 NIV: So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
As we pursue this human interactions however, there's something that we dare not forget: our eventual destination. Atimes, we get caught up in the pursuit of life that we forget that it is only for a while. We were not promised eternity in this present body of ours, we were asked to live our present lives in the light of eternity. We live these days as if it is this present life only that matters, accumulating wealth for unborn generations, stealing the commonwealth, more out of fear of the unknown. We pursue technology and knowledge, seeking to make our earthly life more comfortable, making no investment whatsoever in our eternal destination. We get so caught up in the present that the future seems to have lost its relevance and importance.
Let me boldly assert here today that our lives were made for far more than we see today. God's plan was for man's total and complete domination of all he has created,but with an emphasis on that relationship with God. We can never be in charge of this creation until we have things right with the creator of all we seek to dominate. We can never really be eternity-conscious until we know the eternal God.
That is the focus of the verses quoted above: as we pursue life down here, we must do it with our minds set on eternity. As we seek to make a living out of the experiences we face daily, there must be a consciousness that we must build up something for our eternity. As we seek out earthly survival, our minds and hearts must be set on heavenly relevance. Or as the Bible says: What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?.
People, there's no true life outside of the owner and giver of life Himself. There's no real existence until you have found relevance in God. Seek him out today, seek out his will, purpose and eternal plan, surrender your fears, struggles and labour to Him and then watch him do exploits with a life that is fully surrendered to him and totally focused on eternity. His time of favour is here.