“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.” (Col. 3:1-2)
When we consider the facets of Christianity that establish the preeminence of Christ, there is too much to take in in one lifetime. Everything was created for Christ, and it will be a day of great awakening for the saint of God when this becomes clear to the consciousness. Nothing enables us to see as God sees until we look through the window of Christ.
The matter of focus is very lost on many Christians, for they do not seem to realize the nature of their calling. There is too much work, too much busyness, too much thought of an “it” or a “institution” or a “program.” The tragedy in this is that Christ is obscured. The Christ-life is an existence of spiritual focus and a matter of having the right priorities. We must see that the primary point that God has made in His word is that Christ is to be in view the entire time that we are in existence. Everything that we do must be done out of pure love and devotion to Him for there to be any worth in it.
The believer’s eye must be a window of Christ. Everywhere we look we should see the one for whom, by whom, and through whom all things exist. We must learn to set our minds on things above, believing that God has “raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus” (Eph. 2:6).
The only basis for our acceptance with God is Christ--period. What Christ has done—in His righteous life, sacrificial death, triumphant resurrection from the dead, and ascension into heaven—is the certain basis that has set sinners right with God. This is the reason that only Christ should and must be preached by the church. The goal of every disciple of Christ is to be like Him and bring others to Him. This can only be done by preaching Him to others. “Him we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ” (Col. 1:28)
Christian, do not let anything obscure your view of Christ. Keep Him in view. Make everything you do a response to what you see in Him.