How would you define ‘a mind-set’?
Computers, cell phones and other electronic devices have settings. Do human beings have settings too? I would say, yes. We respond to certain conditions in certain premeditated ways. We are (mostly) happy about weddings, new born babies and news of promotion at work. We are (mostly) saddened by death, murder and being dumped by people we would have given up our hobbies for.
We also have settings as far as material things are concerned. Most people in school dream of success in their fields of training with wealth being the measure of success. You will be hard pressed to find someone in school training with the aim of improving someone else’s living conditions, especially if this means giving up their own comforts in life.
The prevailing mind-set in many people reads as follows: get born, go to school, get born-again (perhaps), get a job, get promoted, get married, get kids, get retired, get grand-kids, get to heaven (read die). In the book of Colossians, chapter 3, we are encouraged to set eternal rather than finite priorities. We are invited to set our minds on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Matters in heaven are largely out of our hands, and this is not the way we like affairs to run. We desire control, even if to a limited degree….after all, little is better than nothing.
A friend of mine gives reference to a quote he read from a book, ‘instead of asking God to bless your work, find out what God is doing and join Him, for it is already blessed’. Supposing you knew the exact nature of proceedings at the stock market next week, wouldn’t you have an advantage as far as your investments would go? Realizing that things on earth perish with age and use and that things in heaven are preserved in His awesome presence, wouldn’t we be better advised to invest our energies on the goings on in heaven?
So now, how does your mind’s setting need to change, to be more heavenly?
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