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… no one seeks for God. -- Romans 3:11 Do you realize that religion doesn’t seek the one true God? That may surprise you, but it’s true. Religion is nothing more than man’s frail effort to create God in his own image. But while religion is man’s quest to be like God, the Christian faith is about God's search for man! Isn’t that amazing? This is what separates Christianity from the world’s religions. Luke 19:10 says, “The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” So when someone says, “I found the Lord,” in all honesty, they didn't. The Lord found them! You and I were lost and he came looking for us. And he found us and loved us and made it possible for us to be forgiven of our sin. Now some people resent being judged as sinful. And if you feel this way, pay close attention, because this is the very part of our nature that rebels against God. But Romans 3:23 clearly states that, “all have sinned and fall short of God’s glory.” We are lost without him and doomed to be separated from a holy God. But in his endless love, God sent a Savior to find us and to pay the ultimate price for our sin. Don’t let your pride stand between you and eternity with our loving heavenly Father. Repent and turn from your sin and begin to follow Jesus today!   “ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF GOD’S GLORY.”

Forgetting the Things of Earth

by Dr. Paul Chappell

“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.”
Colossians 3:1–4

I read a fascinating interview with astronaut John Blaha who spent several months on the Russian Mir space station back in the 1990s. This veteran astronaut flew six space shuttle missions, but spending months with people he didn’t know and with whom he had a significant language barrier proved challenging. Blaha said that his first month was pretty miserable. “I kept longing for things that I loved on earth. Finally, I decided that I had to forget them. When I did that, then I loved being on the Space Station.”
No matter what country a Christian lives in here on Earth, our true citizenship is in Heaven. “For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:” (Philippians 3:20). And while there are concerns of daily living that must be met, when our focus settles on earthly things, we cannot love Heaven and the things of God as we should. Everything around us is temporal, and one day all that is material will be destroyed.
Living for the things of God requires our affection. It is no mistake that Jesus said the greatest commandment is to love God above all else. Obedience and holiness are primarily a matter of the heart. No matter what temptations or inducements are offered to someone who loves God as he should, he will remain focused on pleasing the One he loves. This is how we glorify and obey God.
 

Today’s Growth Principle: 

A Christian fixated on the things of earth will not have his affections on Christ or eternity.