Colossians 3:2. NKJV
Your mind is working all the time, continually processing all types of thoughts. We see and hear things throughout our day, and some of them enter our minds, and we begin to dwell on them.
For example, someone rings us with information about someone who we have difficulty in liking, let alone loving. It may be something that does not directly involve yourself but it completely winds you up, and initially you pray for the situation. However, if you're not careful, for the rest of the day, your prayers turn into criticism and you begin having psychological conversations with yourself about the situation. This has the ability to make you feel worse because these kind of conversations serve no purpose, except to strangle your peace.
The Apostle Paul, tells us to, 'Set our minds on things above, not on things on the earth.' Now that's a hard one to adhere to when you have got yourself in such a state that the only thing on your mind is this problem.
But, stop there. That is the problem. You have allowed yourself to become like this, not the other person. You are the one that chose to become upset about what someone else has done and it is you, who has spent the best part of the day in criticism and bad feeling about something that possibly is none of your business.
What has happened is, you have lost your focus. Your focus should be on Jesus Christ - on Heaven, not on things that are sent to rob you of your joy. Who is the joy stealer? Yes, that's right. He comes to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10). But Jesus comes to bring you life in abundance. Are you living the abundant life, or have you lost your focus?
If you are allowing your focus to become distracted by things such as this, do something about now. Think, what would Jesus say about this? How would He handle the situation? I think you know the answer to these two questions. His Word to us this morning, is:
Turn your eyes upon Jesus
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things on earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace.
Copyright Helen Howarth Lemmel
Copyright 2020 Grahame Howard
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