Fragment: The Right Focus

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“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God” (Col. 3:11If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. (Colossians 3:1)).
The story is told of a time when two brothers were walking along the street and encountered a third brother (we will call him “Smith”) who had left the fellowship of those gathered to the Lord’s name.
After parting, one of the two began sadly lamenting the path that brother Smith had chosen. The other rebuked his companion, saying, “I don’t want to hear anything against brother Smith. You and I talk about heaven. Brother Smith lives there.”
D. Gorgas