How do we follow the voice of our Shepherd?
Somehow, when we seek the things that are above, the things of this world have so much less influence on our lives and we find it much easier to place our trust in the things of God, believe in His promises, and not place our trust in the things of this world that will only perish. (Colossians 3:1)
Somehow, the voice of the temptation and the enemy loses its power over us, when we seek things that are above. Someway, by simply changing our focus we fulfill the scripture that says, “22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!”
When we fill our eyes with the things above “light” pierces the darkness in our own hearts, and it becomes easier to “put to death our old nature” and walk rightly restored (righteous) in the image God with all that He created us to be. Only then, when our own hearts are fully restored, can we walk in greater Godly confidence and carry that light to the world and share the love of God in its fullness as He intended. Only then, can we walk in our new identity in Christ fulfilling the destiny God intended for each of our lives, and become sons and daughters of the most high God in heaven above.
When we do this, we fulfill scripture and we fulfill our destiny by becoming the very essence what Paul wrote to us in Romans 8:19 “For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.”
The world is hungry for the face of God and waits eagerly for us to show them His glorious love within us…..Surely now is our time to be revealed! Amen!!
Scott L
Colossians 3
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: impurity, passion, evil desire, sexual immorality, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
Scott L
5/20/2013