Looking Up

I 10, LOOKING UP

Paul exhorts us in Col. 3:1,2 to seek those things which are above and to set our affection on heavenly; things. This can apply to our heavenly inheritance. When

meme we were not born again, we were concerned about increasing our income, worldly possessions or property, But as God‘s children our hearts should be set upon heavenly things. Then in verses 9,10 Paul writes about putting off the old man with its deeds and putting on the new. man, which is renewed in the knowledge after the image of God. Crossing the river indicates that the people of a Israel had to put off the old life and ware entering into an entirely new life. So we say by faith that the Lord Jesus had put away the old man with sinful nature and also claim by faith the newness of life which He manifested in His rising again from the dead. By that life we can be: prepared for receiving the heavenly inheritance,