The things that are above

Albert Bogle April 10, 2026 3 4

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Colossians 3: 1-4 (NIV-UK)

1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

In yesterday’s prayer, we were thinking about the song, ‘You Raise me up’ as an encouragement to see beyond our present struggles. Today’s reading reminds us that Jesus Christ has raised us up into a new life in him. The result of this, the implications of this, is that our priorities have changed. The Emmaus walk lifts us right up into the very heart of God himself. We no longer build our future on perishable material things, but we build into our future the things of God above. Our old life is now hidden in Christ and our new life is intertwined with the Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now that to me, makes me flinch not out of fear but out of the sheer truth of such an impossibility — yet knowing that with God the impossible becomes the certain truth and a reality.

Prayer:

Lord,

Help me grow up into my new identity

Lift my eyes beyond my present struggles

I know you will not ask me to follow and walk a road,

or take a path, or make a journey, that will defeat me.

So today I‘m putting on my new shoes,

Looking out my field binoculars

Rolling out a new roadmap

Starting a new adventure, with a new perspective,

Believing that impossibility is the beginning of understanding eternal things.

Lord,

I’m getting ready

To change priorities

I want to build a future

Looking to the things beyond time

Carrying a knapsack of eternal promises.

Help me keep my feet on holy ground

And my eyes fixed on heavenly mountains

And my heart rooted in the suffering world

And my joy in sharing the good news of the gospel.