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Colossians 3:1-17

Thank God by His grace for you have given your life to Christ as confessed by your mouth. As a believer who has accepted the grace of salvation and have died and risen in Christ, which position are you or have you taken? The apostle Paul pointed out in Colossians 3:1-2, ÒIf then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.Ó  As a believer, what you seek and set your mind on is what will make you up in the journey of life. In all your seeking, ÒSeek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.Ó  (Matthew 6:33) The word of God is true and never fails. When you seek the kingdom of heaven first, not second nor jointly with any other agenda, the result will be true to GodÕs word. When we seek Him, it should be with all diligence with all that He has given us. God did not ask for less or more and He will not accept less in our seeking Him. Further, God did not ask for what we cannot offer. He made us and knows us so He knows what we are capable of giving Him. Deuteronomy 4:29, ÒÉseek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.Ó Have you in deed and in truth given your life to Him? Seek Him with all your diligence and He will bring to pass all that He promised. What about setting your mind? Remember, it is about setting and seeking and neither can be separated from one  another. It is not possible to seek and not set; neither is it possible to set and not seek Him. A mind that is set on God will always wait and look up to Him for all answers from above. A mind that is set on Him will not be a stranger to peace. It is the setting of minds on things from above that will upset everything in the world of wickedness from having its way in the life of any believer who chooses to seek and set it all on Him. What a believer seeks or sets is where the mind is. If your mind is on the kingdom of God, you will live heaven on earth and if it is on the kingdom of this world, you will have no choice but to reap from where you seek and set. Isaiah 26:3, ÒYou will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.Ó The position of a believer is in seeking and setting of the mind in the things that are above. As a believer in the word of God, there is only one place we should constantly dwell and that is in seeking and setting our all on the Lord. Seek and set it all on Him.