What is your mind set on? What topic occupies your mind more than anything else? Is it your financial situation? Is it your job? Is it the worldly events you see on the evening news? Is your mind filled with drama? Or do you focus on your relationship to God and his will for you?
Most of us focus on what is in front of us at the moment. While on the job, the tasks we perform are our focus. When at home, we focus on our families and things that need done around the house. Focusing on these things at these times are normal.
But the why behind them is the point of today’s passage. If our motivation for focusing on our job is to gain a promotion, our minds are set on fleshly things. If we are focused on remodeling or improving our homes to make them look better than our neighbor’s, we are focused on fleshly things. If our focus on our family is merely to make our children better than someone else’s so we can brag on them, we are focused fleshly things.
On the other hand, if we are set on doing the best job we can because we are working for God, our minds are set on the Spirit. If we are beautifying our home to improve God’s creation, our minds are set on the Spirit. If we are focused on raising our children to obey God and to do everything for him, we are focused on the Spirit. And having our minds set on the Spirit is life and will result in peace.
Our world is full of drama, disquiet, disfunction, ungratefulness, rivalries, and sometimes utter chaos. We can only find peace by setting our minds on God. Peace will come to us when we live according to the Spirit. Therefore, we are to set our minds on the Spirit of God rather than on the things of this world.
I pray we all change our focus for our daily lives. I pray we decide to make God’s will our focus. I pray each one of us live in the Spirit, setting our minds on the Spirit and let God be our motivation. Change your focus. Change your motivation. Set your mind on the Spirit. Obtain life and peace.
Romans 8:6 To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
Marty Pressey 