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"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. " (NIV)
Wow. I was reading this today, and it really challenged me and got me thinking, so i thought i would share it with you. This verse tells us to set our hearts and minds on things above, not on earthly things. For we are with Christ now, we don't need to think about the things of this world. It goes back to another place where it says that we live in the world yes, but we are not of this world. We are heavenbound, and therefore our thoughts need to be heavenbound as well. Sometimes i think we can get easily caught up in thinking about earthly things. Just think about your every day life. So many times i get caught up in thinking about me. About what i have to do, who i have to see, my future, etc. And since i'm trying to think about it and figure it out all by myself (thinking i'm real smart) i just end up feeling stressed out, overwhelmed, confused, and worried, none of which is cool at all. These verses tell me i need to re-focus, get back to Christ. Get back to thinking about God and let him figure out the rest. I mean he says he'll take our burdens, why is it so hard for us sometimes (it definitely is for me) to let him? i mean why do we want that extra weight? Why do we want to hold on to those things so badly? It really doesn't make sense. i don't know about you, but when i read this, and then looked at my life, i came to the conlusion that i am a little bit burden-fat. And it is all because i am not fully relying on Christ. My thoughts are not focused on him, and on things above all of the time. Instead i always seem to want to think on things below! -- and it never gets me anywhere. I'm like a little kid who always forgets the same thing. I need constant reminders from God, to put my trust in him, and stop thinking so much. Thank goodness he is so patient with me. He will never let me down no matter how much i let him down. He is so faithful. So i thought, it's time for me to lose some earthly weight. i'm getting a little chunky, and i don't like it. I don't feel good. So i'm going on a diet. A less of me and WAY more of Jesus diet. it's like when you cut out a certain type of food, in some diets, well i'm cutting out me. me is done. it's over. no more me. beacause me doesn't work. Jesus works. So this is my challenge of late, join me if you want. Let's lose some "weight." Are you ready to feel lighter? I'm in, are you?
~jade
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4 comments:
"Burden-fat"?? What a great phrase! Good for preaching, BTW.
:)
once in a while God gives me some insights...that seem really simple..but somehow i always have problems with them....:) it's more like preaching to myself. glad to liked it though.
Hey Jade
Great blog! It really made me think a lot about my own life. And how I need to always look to God and focus on him and everything falls into place. When reading your blog it made me think of two verse. They are: "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." (Matthew 6:33-34) "He must become greater; I must become less." (John 3:30)
When I read your blog this is what I thought about. I agree with you that we need to look to Heavenly things and everything works out. I need to try training my self to do that much like to you need to do if you are going to lose weight here on earth you need to train your body. We need to train our hearts and minds to look to heavenly things!
Howden Matt Howden
Hey Charlie, It's been a while, alll your blogs are great, so i've decided to post one culminative comment.! You really put things into perspective, makes me miss ya more! Anwyays, i took have created a blog it's http://derailedbycircumstance.blogspot.com/ hope to hear from you there. I shall talk to you soon!
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