#4 How Should I act?
 

A Heart in Heaven
 

Set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
(Colossians 3:1)
 

    It's fun watching young men in love. It can be even more fun when the romance is long distance.
    You can predict what will happen. There'll be hours of late-night, heart-pounding telephone conversations. The postal service will be overrun with love notes crossing each other in the mail. Pillows will be soaked with tears.
    But the most telling symptom is the glazed, faraway look in Romeo's eyes. I'm sure you've seen it. You ask the man a question and you get a blank stare. He's not at home. He's elsewhere, in another land. He's with his sweetheart.
    You might say his heart is set on things afar, where Juliet is seated right by the telephone.
    Colossians 3:1 has something much grander in view than young love, but perhaps this can get us in the right frame of mind. "Set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God,@ Paul says. But before we can understand how to do that, we need to look at the truth that is being stated here: "Christ is seated at the right hand of God.@
  We all understand that the Bible teaches the Lord Jesus Christ was with the Father before the worlds were made. We know that he assumed our humanity, was born a baby in Bethlehem, lived on earth for about thirty-three years died an ignominious death, on the third day rose again from the dead, ascended to the Father, and is now seated at the Father's right hand.
    Those are basic Christian truths. This is Christian theology. As we are exposed to these pieces of information, we determine whether they are true or false. If it is true that Christ is seated at the Father's right hand, that means death did not conquer him, but he conquered death. It means the risen Lord Jesus is greater than everything that ever defeated a human being, in him all authority resides, and through him alone can sinful mankind hold audience with God the Father. All that is contained in the statement, "Christ is seated at the right hand of God.@
  How does the truth that "Christ is seated at the right hand of God@ make us want to set our hearts on things above?

Thank you, Father, for giving me something and someone so wonderful to set my heart and mine on, Amen
 

~Stuart Briscoe~