Our church just recently started a new series. We are going through the Gospel of Mark in our series entitled Christ Our Focus. As the teaching pastor of God's GardenChurch, I thought it was necessary for us, as a congregation, to come back to the place where Christ is the center of all that we do, think, and speak. It is easy, as Christians, to walk around and not fully consider whom we are serving. It is easy to speak in talking points, and not realize the severity (the eternal weight) of the things that we are speaking about.

As the above text demonstrates, the Christian life is a call to be heavenly minded (where Christ is). The life of the Christian should be focused on being well pleasing to God and not entangled with the things of this world. To the Christian, our aim is to live lives that are in harmony with our calling, to be conformed into the image of Christ, and to be ready for His eventual return. How easy it is for the Christian to lose sight of these things. How easy it is for us to get trapped by the things that "are on earth." It must not be so. As Christians, we are in need of heavenly mindedness. We are in need of focusing and continuously refocusing on Christ as our victory, sustainer, brother, and friend.