MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion for Thursday August 27, 2020
Topic: Redirect Your Focus
Text: Colossians 3:1 – 4
The essence of going to learn in a school is for us to improve and
to make us have better understanding of ourselves and our society. If after you
have studied in the school and there is no improvement in your understanding,
it means your efforts in school were wasted. Likewise, when someone repents and
accepts Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, it is expected that such should have
a better understanding of how best to serve God.
It is on this premise that Paul started this chapter by saying,
“Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your eyes on the
realities of heaven …” (New Living Translation). This means that before their
repentance, their focus were on worldly things. Now it shouldn’t be so.
Because they had been raised, they had a clear responsibility to
Christ, who had raised them. They must set their sights on the realities of
heaven. The Greek word for “set” means to seek something out with a desire to
possess it. The believers must take their focus off the world and turn it to
Christ, who sits at God’s right hand in the place of honour and power. They
should concentrate on the eternal rather than the temporal, letting their
thoughts dwell in the realm of Christ. They were to focus on the Lord Jesus
(Hebrews 12:2).
Thoughts can influence actions, so if the believers would place
their thoughts above and not only here on earth, their actions would please
God. Are your thoughts focused on Christ now as a Christian or you are still
concerned about worldly affairs?
Food for Thought: Philippians 4:8
Memory verse: Colossians 3 v 2
