“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God” — Colossians 3:1-3.
IT is not as though Paul cast any doubt on our having been raised with Christ, and our identification with Him as He sits at God’s right hand. But it is as though he said, “Since these things are true, now set your mind on things above.” We belong to the scene where Christ our Head has gone. We have died to the old life and all that belonged to it. We are now associated with Christ in new creation. Our real life is that divinely imparted eternal life which we received in regeneration. Nothing on earth can satisfy its desires or meet its demands. We must look up to where our Saviour sits exalted. As we are occupied with Him the things of this lower realm will lose their power over our souls, and heavenly things become more real.
“Whom have we, Lord, but Thee,
Soul-thirst to satisfy?
Exhaustless spring! The waters free!
All other streams are dry.
Our hearts by Thee are set
On brighter things above;
Strange that we ever should forget
Thine own most faithful love.”
—Mary Bowley.