Our real home (part 3)
Verse of the day: Colossians 3:2 “Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things”
In the second part, I ended by saying that today there are some Christians who behave as if they have already reached the final destination while they are in transit.
If someone is in transit, his thoughts and decisions conform to the final destination. Our final destination is heaven and we are here on earth as ambassadors of Christ.
The verse of the day (Colossians 3: 2) asks us to set our minds on things above and not on earthly things. The world system often leads us to worry about the problems we face every day and they takes a lot of our attention. On the other hand we bind ourselves on earthly things as if we will live forever on earth while we all know that there is a day for everyone to leave this world.
I can say without fear of being wrong that all who will read this message do not have ninety years ahead of them to live on this earth. So if you have less than ninety years to live on earth, have you tried to calculate the years you will live after death? The Bible says about eternity i.e. billions and billions of years. There is not even a number to explain the length of life after death.
If you are citizens of heaven and you know that you will live in heaven for billions and billions of years, why focus on the things of earth while we will live here for an average of eighty years? I think we often fall into the trap of the devil who wants to persuade us that our happiness lies here on earth while the earth is just a temporary way to our final destination. There is nothing wrong in having a nice house, a nice car and nice things but if those beautiful things of the earth take much of your attention to the point of suffering if you do not have them, then you fell into the trap of focusing your attention on temporary things. Whether you want it or not, every day you approach slowly but surely your departure to eternity.
All our thoughts and decisions here on earth must comply with heavenly thoughts and decisions. Even our requests in our prayers must comply with decisions of the sky. I will talk about it in the fourth part.
Chris Ndikumana
