Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on
the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God's right
hand. Colossians 3:1
You never have to say to one whose heart is wholly set upon God:
"You must give up this and give up that." Leave such a one with the
Lord, and you will find those things go. It is a very blessed thing to see a
heart set upon the Lord. You need have no worries in that direction. All the anxiety
lies in the realm where the heart is not wholly for the Lord. The apostle’s two
letters to the Thessalonians are full of joy. He thanked the Lord on every
remembrance of them. He could not speak too highly of them or in terms too
glowing, simply because they turned from the world unto God, “to serve the living and true God, and to
wait for His Son from heaven,”
and he had no anxiety about them. When you turn to the Corinthians... there is
a good deal of trouble. It is the wilderness situation again – a divided heart.
A resurrection basis gives God a chance that is right out to the
Lord from the world. All that that means we have to learn. We shall come to
things we never expected if we are going on with the Lord. Things on which we
were so clearly settled as things being of God, and never for one moment
expected to have a question about, become challenged. Not that they were not of
God, but they were only of God up to a point, and now there is something more
beyond them. And unless we go on to the something more, the good becomes the
enemy of the best. And so, because of comparative values, we have to leave what
is good for the better; and then later the better for the best. It can only
come about as we are really going on with the Lord. But that requires, first of
all, that we have made a clean cut and have said: "I am out on
resurrection ground. I am out with the Lord utterly."
No comments:
Post a Comment