Before I take a break for the Thanksgiving holiday I want to wrap up this week with one more thought from my reflections on Colossians 3:2, "set your minds on things that are above."
This is a daily discipline. The world around us provides no support for our decision to center ourselves in Christ. I must take responsibility to do this daily, and I must take responsibility to find people and resources that will help me stay centered on Christ.
If we allow ourselves to be passive agents, our minds will be filled for us by the media or by the negative voices around us. The key to Christ-centered ambition is Christ-centered thinking. So we must make a conscious effort to fix our minds on the things of Christ.
I wish all my readers a very blessed and gratitude filled Thanksgiving holiday!
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By the way, happy Thanksgiving to YOU too
ReplyDeleteKaty and Cinco Ranch are still in it
Alabama won. Texas won. what is next?
Glenn,
ReplyDeleteI love the content here. Some great insight that most traditional pastors don't have, and can't give to their business men and women.
I will be checking in regularly, as I am in need of some of this thinking for myself as I prepare to refocus in many areas for 2010.
Thanks Ross! I appreciate your affirmation.
ReplyDeleteGlenn... Your post is so true - "The world around us provides no support for our decision to center ourselves in Christ." So often, and naturally, we leave Jesus in the parking lot of our Sunday service as we drive off to begin our work week.
ReplyDeleteIt takes focsed effort to live / apply the words we heard in church beyond Sunday lunch. Left to our own doing, we forget "WWJD" on Monday morning and compete through Saturday to achieve the definitions of success advertised by retial companies and other competing consumers. Peace and contintment can not be achieved without God. Thank God he is a forgiving God.
We need to pray everyday, we need musical worhip during the week, we need to read the bible and apply the word of God everyday - its hard to do in the way we live.
God, come into my life and take over! Amen