Have you ever had your mind or heart really set on something?  Set to the point where you have trouble even focusing on other things.  What happens when we set our hearts and minds on Jesus?  Paul talks about this in Colossians 3.  Let’s look at it together today. 

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now 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, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. 11 Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

When your mind is fixed on something it becomes easier to throw off things that lead in a contrary direction.  This is true in big and little things.  When I get hungry I tend to not do things that will delay me getting to eat.  When we fix our minds and hearts on Jesus we don’t do the things that lead us in directions other than Him.  We become focused on Christ alone.  We find our satisfaction and joy in Him not in the pursuit of worldly pleasures.  I pray that we might all find ourselves with minds and hearts fixed on Jesus. 

In His Grip,
Pastor Dave