The High Life

Colossians 3:1-4

“If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.”

When you are in love with someone, their interests become your interests. We need to be interested in what God is interested in because we love Him, and our life is in Him. We become consumed by what consumes Him. The more heaven gets into you the more it radiates around you.

Colossians says, we are to “seek those things which are above.” To seek means to search for and pursue until you find it. It is not a casual pursuit but a diligent, purposeful, and disciplined pursuit of those things above. We are to “set our mind on things above.” The King James Version says to “set our affections on things above, not on things on the earth.” The focus of our soul man (mind, will and emotions) must be on things above. When we do that our soul comes into agreement with our spirit causing us to walk out the high life.

Jesus said in John 4:34, “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.” What is it that really drives your life? In French it is called “votre reson d’etre,” or your purpose of existence. Why do you get up and go to work or school, take care of family, or the myriad of other things that make up your life. If your motivation is anything else except Christ and those things which are above, your “reson de etre” is very fragile and can be taken away at any time. However, if your mind, will, and affections are on things which are above, then “your life is hidden with Christ in God,” a place of ultimate and eternal security. And “when Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.”

In Revelations 4:1 it says, “I (John) looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, "Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this."  There is a door in heaven standing open for you. It is a door of revelation, a door of glory, a door of provision, a door of healing.

In Genesis 28:10-14, Jacob sees a stairway to heaven with God at the top of the stairs. God promises His blessings on Jacob, and through His descendants all the nations of the earth would be blessed. We too, through Jesus Christ, are given access to heaven and the high life, that we may walk in the blessings of Abraham, and through us all the nations of the earth may be blessed.

Andy Clark