Looking Up

When you're a Christian (or when you go to a church), a question that you most likely had asked of you before is, "What's your favourite Bible verse?" or "What is your go to verse?"

For me, my go to verse is Colossians 3:2. When I have nothing to write on cards, I write Colossians 3:2 (now you know...). This became my favourite verse when I was doing a Bible study for Colossians 3 for UWCCF and we had to memorize the chunk that we were studying. We didn't end up memorizing it all.

Colossians 3:2 speaks a lot to me as it can be summarized in two words: look up. Short and simple. Fix your gaze on Christ (things above) and not on earthly things. Of course that doesn't mean to stay in your bubble away from "the world". Just the opposite, Christ sent us into the world to redeem it (John 17:18). So as we serve in our daily mundane tasks, we must be reminded that our gaze is on Christ. Everything ordinary that we do is for Him and by the Spirit's power, for the glory of God the Father.

I was talking to someone yesterday and a topic on sanctification came about. Somewhere there I mentioned loosely the quote, "Don’t be so heavenly minded that you are of no earthly good." If you search the internet, you'll see lots of refutations on this and I would agree. The best refutation I heard a long time ago would be summarized like this by a pastor, the most heavenly minded person is the one who does the most earthly good.

So look up and redeem the world.