While I was trying to pray this morning my mind was turning over a disturbing conversation I had with a friend yesterday. Why couldn’t she see the fallacy of her argument? Why couldn’t I make myself clearer? If only I had pointed out such-and-such….
Then came the words of Colossians 3:1-2, about the place where Christ lives, “seated at the right hand of God.” That is where our minds ought to live ---just where He lives. “Let your thoughts dwell on that higher realm, not on this earthly life.” What an order.
Does it mean I’m to become “so heavenly-minded I’m of no earthly use”? Quite the opposite. The more truly fixed my mind is on the level where nothing changes or deteriorates or disturbs, the more strength and serenity I will have to serve God and ordinary folks in “this earthly life.”
Appropriating this fact by faith, I can commit all that was said and left unsaid yesterday, and the person who disturbed me, and lean my mind on the stillness of Christ in God.
The Music of His Promises by Elisabeth Elliot
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