Daily Mindset

     As Christians, God provides for our physical needs.  We all have food, clothes, and shelter.  (Matt. 6:31-32)  However, this is not where our true blessings are.  As humans, we tend to focus on our physical wants, but this is not our purpose here, nor is it what God wants to extend to us.  We are not promised good health, comfortable living, or serene emotional well-being.  According to Ephesians 6:1, God “has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.”  That is where our focus should be, and that is where our hope lies.

     As we experience the daily grind of working, commuting, doctor’s appointments, cleaning house, making dinner, and any number of other things that press upon our minds every day, it can be hard to keep in mind that we have other work we should be doing, and another place that we are planning to go.  Following Christ means more than worship, more than clean language.  It means prayer (“pray without ceasing,”1 Thess. 5:17), teaching (“preach the word,” 2 Tim. 4:2), being a godly example (“an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity,” 1 Tim. 4:12), and self-examination (“Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.” 1 Tim. 4:16).  These are the things that should be on our minds daily, always beneath the day-to-day surface.  By doing these things, we will achieve the true blessing that God has promised: eternal life.  “Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you.”  (John 5:27)