{"id":38923,"date":"2026-01-15T22:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38923"},"modified":"2026-01-13T00:51:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:51:44","slug":"260116-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260116-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Mind on Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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Do you feel as if your best years have passed you by? Hogwash! You\u2019ll do your best work in heaven. Do you regret wasting seasons of life on foolish pursuits? So do I. But we can stop our laments. We have an eternity to make up for lost time.<\/p>\n

Colossians 3:1 (NKJV) is a great reminder to \u201cseek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.\u201d Seek heaven the way a sailor seeks the coast or a pilot seeks the landing strip. Colossians 3:2 (NCV) says, \u201cThink only about\u201d it. Other translations say, \u201cKeep your mind on\u201d it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides.<\/p>\n

In other words, obsess yourself with heaven.\u00a0Open your eyes<\/em>, Christ invites.\u00a0Lift up your gaze. You were made for more than this life.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0God’s Story, Your Story<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Do you feel as if your best years have passed you by? Hogwash! You\u2019ll do your best work in heaven. Do you regret wasting seasons of life on foolish pursuits? So do I. But we can stop our laments. We have an eternity to make up for lost time.<\/p>\n

Colossians 3:1 (NKJV) is a great reminder to \u201cseek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.\u201d Seek heaven the way a sailor seeks the coast or a pilot seeks the landing strip. Colossians 3:2 (NCV) says, \u201cThink only about\u201d it. Other translations say, \u201cKeep your mind on\u201d it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides.<\/p>\n

In other words, obsess yourself with heaven. Open your eyes, Christ invites. Lift up your gaze. You were made for more than this life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38926,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38923\/revisions\/38926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}