Look Up

SCRIPTURE: 1 Kings 20-21; 2 Chr. 17; Col. 3

Colossians 3:1-2
So if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that’s where the action is. See things from his perspective.

OBSERVATIONS: Serious. Dedicated? Act like you are serious. Don’t wait until you “feel like it.”  See things from his perspective more than our own. “Act as if.”

APPLICATION: Joey, this is more about you than the folks around you. There have always been places in your life that said, “I’m not completely serious about this.” Each day is a new chance for you to get a better grip on being alert to what is going on around Christ.

PRAYER: God, your will, not mine. You know how serious I am about loving you. Help me to act like it. Draw my eyes to your Son, so that I can follow him to where he is, and be a part of what he is doing. For His sake, Amen.