Colossians 3:1 If 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. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

Romans 6:4 Therefore, we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so, we also should walk in newness of life.

What I give my thoughts to is very important.  That old saying that a person is too heavenly-minded to be any earthly good is untrue.  It runs against what Scripture teaches.

We are meant to be heavenly-minded to be any earthly good.

If you have been raised with Christ.  If you have been born again, you were raised with Christ.  Anyone born again was created to seek those things above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.

We are meant to be thinking as heavenly beings.  We are no longer meant to think as someone who is of this world but rather as someone who is of His kingdom.

This means that what we fill our minds with matters.  To walk in the newness of life, we must think like someone who has received newness of life.

What I dwell on determines how I live.  The Holy Spirit does not force me to be and to do.  He will empower me to be and to do, but He does not turn me into a robot for God.

I have a choice in the matter of how I live my life.  If I refuse the wise counsel of where to set my mind, I will struggle more than is ordinary.

Many think laziness begins and can only be described as someone who sits around doing nothing.  But the birthplace of laziness is in the mind.  It involves the refusal to think productively and imagine possibilities.

Laziness towards setting one’s mind where it should be produces inactivity or at least the wrong activity. It is victory over laziness that invests in choosing to think right so that one can begin to choose right and then act on that right.

By thinking right, we begin to know who we are and what we are capable of because we see Jesus, who created us for greater purposes.  I encourage you today to fill your thoughts with Jesus and consider where He is seated.  See His greatness and grace.  Know His love and mercy—Marvel at His abundant life and radiance.  Then realize all this is working in you when you are abiding in Him.  This is how to bear much fruit and be productive for His kingdom.  It begins with where our thoughts are allowed to wander and dwell.  To set means to fix.  Where will you allow your thoughts to dwell today?