Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. -Colossians 3:2
Victoria Osteen shares on Facebook…
Scripture says to set your mind on things above. This tells me that we have a choice about the content of our thoughts. We can choose to think about what’s going on around us, or we can meditate on the things of God.
Charles Stanley shares in his Life Principles Bible…
Your mind is working all the time—constantly processing information. And what you think about affects you more than you realize because who you are today is the result of what you’ve been thinking all these past years. That is why believers are admonished to focus our thoughts on the things that honor the Lord—because God’s goal is to change us into the likeness of Christ, and that transformation begins in our minds
The Maxwell Leadership Bible reminds us…
That We must focus our minds on things above. We must raise new internal standards.
Joyce Meyer tells us in her My Time with God Devotional…
That she has learned over the years the value of purposely setting her mind on things she want to happen throughout the day, instead of passively waiting to see what kind of thoughts she happens to have. What’s more, we can and should choose our thoughts, because what we meditate on often becomes our reality.
In the end, what this Bible Verse is truly reminding us is that when we focus on God, we recognize the good in our life, more and more.