Where are your affections?!

Seek those things which are above.

Col 3:1  If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

What things? Seriously. What things? We spend so much time seeking things that are NOT above I don't think we can comprehend fully even how to seek things that are above.  Our focus has been earthbound for so long we are clueless as to exactly what it means to seek those things which are above.  We are clueless as well as to how we lay our treasures up in heaven.  We are so lost when it comes to things heavenly because we are so incredibly earthly.

Seek those things which are above.

Col 3:2  Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Affections NOT SET ON EARTH.

Mat 6:33  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

SEEK FIRST the kingdom of GOD.

Luk 12:33  Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

Luk 12:34  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

TREASURE in HEAVEN.

Rom 8:6  For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

SPIRITUALLY MINDED.

2Co 4:18  While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

THINGS NOT SEEN ARE ETERNAL.

Php 3:20  For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Php 3:21  Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

CONVERSATION IS IN HEAVEN.

Heb 11:13  These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Heb 11:14  For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

Heb 11:15  And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

Heb 11:16  But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

STRANGERS and PILGRMS ON THE EARTH. A BETTER COUNTRY- HEAVENLY.

Over and over again we are admonished to SEEK the eternal, to SEEK the heavenly.  Set our affections on things above. Where are you affections?  Seriously, WHERE ARE YOUR AFFECTIONS?! 

The dictionary definition of affection is- 'a gentle feeling of fondness or liking.'

Where are your gentle feelings of fondness? Where are your gentle feelings of liking? Seriously, WHERE ARE YOUR AFFECTIONS!

More tomorrow by the GRACE and MERCY, the LOVE of our Savior, JESUS CHRIST our LORD.

Amen!