CONSCIOUSLY AWARE OF GOOD

Colossians 3:1-2 NIV Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 

It can be tempting sometimes to tell people all the things that went wrong last week! We’re more aware of the bad, instead of the good, and give the enemy glory for it. We’ve forgotten about all the good God has been doing in the background that we’ve taken for granted, the blessings He’s poured on us! I’ve done it myself many times, so I’m not pointing a finger!🙂

But God reminds us that we live and move and have our being in Him which means to be consciously aware of Him all through our day - aware of His protection when danger lurks, when sickness hits, of His provision even when inflation is going up.

God says to ‘set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.’ God wants us aware of the good He has promised to us as His sons and daughters, more than we are all the stuff going on around us. He said we will be blessed going out and coming in, that He has put a hedge of protection of the blood of Jesus around us, that He will provide all our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus, but we have to claim those promises for ourselves personally. 

What Jesus has done for us is as relevant in our daily experience as it was long ago. His word is eternal and our part is to be consciously aware of it and believe it. Thankfully we have the Holy Spirit living in us to help us to do it.

So this is just to jog our memories today, to not give the enemy glory by rehearsing all the bad stuff, but to be consciously aware of all God is doing, and has done for us, which is vast, and testify to somebody of His goodness to us, in spite of what may have gone wrong.😊 Amen.

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