the real world

Col. 3:2 (NLT)
Let heaven fill your thoughts. Do not think only about things down here on earth.

If we think about life immersed in God’s grace and knowing that he is in charge, we are inoculated from the false view that we are at risk here on earth. Notice Paul says in Colossians, “only.” We are to think about what concerns us in life, of course. But we don’t take a human view. We view life through the God’s-eye filter. Our security rests in our ability to allow God’s view to become dominate in our mind.

In this age of instant access to everything, cell phones, text messaging, wireless “hot spots,” and on and on, is it any wonder we “let heaven” in at all? We are bombarded with the urgent and the pseudo-urgent. Everything is a crisis or an opportunity or a critical opportunity. The only thing for sure is you have to act now. It’s a “first 30 callers” world. You know, as in “if you act now, the first 30 callers will receive…”

We are overwhelmed by the “things down here on earth.” This naturally means we are under whelmed by God’s eye thoughts. But, what is reality? The security of knowing God is in charge. Knowing that all that seems so desperately important today and tomorrow will amount to what in the blink of eternity? The real world is the world where heaven fills your thoughts. The real world is what you and Jesus can accomplish together today.