Heaven is not just a destination, but a mindset. Colossians 3:2 says,
“Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.”
We must not only seek Heaven, but we must also think of Heaven.
There are so many things screaming for our attention, each sounding ad though we should stop everything else and go investigate. Sometimes it feels like a scary movie, where verifying every little sound could be a matter of life and death. But, it is just something like a tree branch scraping against the window.
We’ve become necessarily aware of the many things going on around us that could potentially “get us,” but at the same time have become so fixated on what surrounds us that we are just not able to gain or keep the right perspective on them.
Finding higher ground becomes crucial because it gives us the advantage of a broader view of Joe different parts that make up the whole, and even whether something really matters.
To think Heaven is like putting on special glasses that allow us to see what we would not see otherwise. Seeing things for what they are and are not.
We need to be in a place where we see things as God sees them, instead of how people see them.
Gaining the advantage of higher ground is more about elevating our mind’s eye. When we set our minds on the things above and put things below into the right perspective.
By directing our minds on the things above our hearts become committed to seeking and striving for the things of God. Being heavenly-minded needs to be our heart’s desire.
By doing this we learn to view, understand, interpret, and respond to things below from a mind and heart fixed on things above.
We can do a lot of earthly good by being heavenly-minded.
As much as we like to think we are in control, reality quickly dismissed any possibility of that being true. In Isaiah 46:9-10 God says,
“I am God, and there is no other, I am God and there is none like Me. I declare the end from the beginning and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all I please.”
If we want to have and keep a heavenly perspective, we should have a good picture of heaven in mind. For example, there will one day no longer be a need for the sun or join because as Revelation 21:23 describes,
‘…The glory of God gives light, and its lamp is the lamb.”
God will make all things new, all things right. This is where we are headed, if we believe in our hearts that Jesus lived, died, and rose again. It’s both the basis for our hope and also the motivation for bringing to bear a mindset on things above.
From Pity to Praise 