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A Closer Walk

Attitude of the Righteous

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Our ministry is to reach out to the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ and to help believers be equipped with a solid knowledge of the Word of God, the Bible, and be encouraged to apply it in every aspect of their daily lives. There are simple truths for these complex times to help people live in a way that brings real spiritual victory to them and more importantly, through the Lord Jesus Christ, glory to God our Father.

Colossians 3:2
Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.
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The apostle Paul also wrote in his letter to the believers in Rome that “For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace,” {Rom.8:5-6}

Way back when, even before the people of God had entered the promised land of Israel, they were instructed to ‘choose life’ just as we are today. {Deut.30:19} To do that requires that we must set our minds on the things above as today's Scripture demands. And one of the most important ways we can do that is written in the letter to the Hebrews: fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher, the perfecter of our faith. {Heb.12:2} So, as the apostle Peter wrote in his second letter, we have been given everything pertaining to life and godliness. {2Pt.1:3} It is about our minds and our eyes!

Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount that the eye is the lamp of the body and if it is single, healthy, your whole body will be full of light. {Mat.6:22} We have been given two eyes and they are supposed to work in unison, just like our mind and our focus on Jesus, the Word made flesh. Otherwise, we will be cross eyed, typically a very noticeable condition. A Christian who proclaims to know Christ and yet who has a focus on the world and the things of the world has that far more obvious defect.

The prestigious Mayo Clinic also speaks of a condition known as amblyopia—commonly called ‘lazy eye’—described as one eye that wanders. And that wandering eye is a euphemism today for a person who flirts with others than his or her true partner! Consider that great command in the book of Deuteronomy {Deut.6:5} to love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. That is of course what Jesus Himself called the foremost command in answer to a scribe of His day. {Mk.12:29}

We need to make sure that spiritually we are indeed 'cross eyed and minded' as we have a focus on the sacrifice of the Lord on a cross on Calvary, a little hill outside of Jerusalem, two thousand years ago when He gave His all—His life—for us!

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.” (Matthew 6:24)

KEEP THE COMMAND OF GOD