Colossians 3: 1-4
(1) Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ,
Here's another therefore and an if. If you have been raised up with Christ, this means that you have died with Christ in His having died your death in your place.
keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Being raised up, stay above in your thinking processes, with Christ as He is already sitting on His throne. Where we are also already sitting with Him.
(2) Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on Earth.
Think about what is waiting for you above, take your focus off of what will cease to exist before long, that will be destroyed with the Earth.
(3) For you have died and your life is hidden in Christ in God.
When Jesus' blood has washed us clean, then God sends His Spirit into our human spirits, making them alive. This cuts the connection our flesh had with our spirits, freeing us from the bondage sin had on us. So our flesh, being cut off from our spirit, has spiritually died. We no longer are compelled to fall back into that besetting sin, we have another choice now, to do what is right.
And our life in the Holy Spirit is immersed into the body of Christ, who is the Head. We are destined to be with Him where He is, after this human body is transformed.
(4) When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.
Christ is the Head, we are the body; we are all one living organism together. When He returns to this Earth to reign, then He will come in His glory, shining as the sun, and we will be with Him, also shining as His body.
All creation will see us, everything everywhere, good and evil, will see that we are in Christ as His body, and will be sitting on His throne with Him as He sits on His Father's throne with Him.
O my Father, thank You so much for Your wonderful plans for us, that Your intention from the beginning was to create us to be your own children, one with Christ as He is one with You.
O Father, help us to
realize how significant You made us to be. Help us to focus on what You
are preparing for us, that will last forever, rather than on the
temporary stuff here in this world. Help us to live the rest of our
mortal lives here in view of our importance to Your plan.
Father, help us to realize how insignificant everything is in the world, and how to use these little things for the promotion of Your Kingdom.
And every eye shall see, every knee will bow, every tongue will proclaim that Jesus is our Christ, our Head, the Lord God Almighty, sovereign King over all Creation; to the everlasting glory of Almighty God the Father, for ever and ever. Amen.
Even so, come soon, Lord Jesus!
