Have you been around someone who was singularly focused? I am currently in downtown Louisville and it feels like the area I am in is singularly focused on bourbon. Every restarting, bar, and even hotel has a bourbon focus. When you walk the street there are signs everywhere that say Louisville the birthplace of bourbonism. I’m sure much of this is playing into the tourism that is associated with people going on the bourbon trail. It got me thinking however about this passage of scripture from. Colossians 3. Let’s look at it together today. 

“If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.”

What might it look like if we all had a more singular focus on things above. If we avoided some of the sidetracks that life can send us down and devoted more time and attention to God. I suspect it might be like my experience here. Everything in our lives would point people to God just like Louisville seems to be pointing everyone to bourbon. Imagine how impactful that would be in our communities, families, and even our church. I pray that we might all be a people who set our minds on things above and see how God uses that in and through our lives. 

In His Grip, 

Pastor Dave