I’m Terry White and I have a thinking problem (instead of a drinking problem). Confessions!!
God has given us this incredible ability to connect things in our mind, it’s this capacity to gather, sort, collect information and figure out ways to use that information. As a football coach, I love tendency analysis. Watching tape of your opponent to gather information about how they use their personnel to gain advantage over you, then coming up with a plan to counter that. So much fun!!
Spiritual formation requires thinking, requires sorting, especially in our day when volumes of information come our way everyday. Which pieces are worth holding on to and which pieces should be tossed almost immediately.
As a former Police Officer sorting out statements was a priority. Based on what the evidence tells me, which story do I believe? So our journey into the Bible and the newspaper requires the ability to think, to process, to sort. God invites us to His inspired word and in faith trust what He says verses what comes to us as news.
The chapter today invites us to think about Colossians 3:1-4 “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.”
What does it look like to set my heart on things above?
What does it look like to set my mind on things above?
What advantage is there to have our life hidden with Christ in God?
What can we be thankful for in the midst of our thinking?
Truth, Grace, and Time 