Colossians
3:1-4, “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.” God
created us to have a future, not in earth or Creation, but He made us
to have a future in Him where He lives! The way from here to there is
through the
resurrection. If ye be risen with Christ, here’s how to let it continue!
Set your affection on things above! Verse
3, “For ye are dead!” If there could be a comparison between here, and
there, it’s as big as the difference between death and life –
everlasting and abundant
is the difference! The part of me – my flesh – must die, and will die,
but there is a part of us that God made to have a future that He will
keep for us in Jesus. Jesus died and rose again that we could have a
future in Heaven! John
11:25-27, “Jesus said unto her, 'I am the resurrection, and the life; he
that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live and
whosoever liveth
and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?'”
I’d like to - I need to - share with you some pictures of Jesus. Revelations
1:12, “And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being
turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks and in the midst of the seven
candlesticks one
like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and
girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and His hairs were
white like wool, as white as snow and His eyes were as a flame of fire and His feet like unto fine brass, as if they
burned in a furnace and His voice as the sound of many waters. He
had in His right hand seven stars and out of His mouth went a sharp
two-edged sword and His countenance was as the sun shineth in His
strength. When I saw Him, I fell at His feet
as dead. He laid His right hand upon me, saying unto me, 'Fear not; I
am the first and the last; I am He that liveth, and was dead; and,
behold, I am alive for evermore, amen; and have the keys of hell and of
death. Write the things which thou hast seen,
and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter. The
mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in My right hand, and the
seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven
churches and the seven candlesticks which
thou sawest are the seven churches.'” This is Jesus that brought and proved the power of the resurrection, by submission to the will of God! Revelations
19:11, “And I saw Heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that
sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness, He doth
judge and
make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head were many
crowns; and He had a name written, that no man knew, but He Himself. He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood and His name is called
The Word of God. The armies which were
in Heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white
and clean. Out of His mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it He
should smite the nations and He shall rule them with a rod of iron and
He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness
and wrath of Almighty God. He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a
name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.” There’s Jesus our Saviour, when He comes again, and we see Him in that future that God has predestinated us for! We can choose it, or not! We need to look at Jesus, as He will be in that future! May our hearts be set upon Him there! |