well organized dust

“Set your minds on things above.” Colossians 3:2
Sometimes believers’ indifference towards the affairs of this world
gets out of balance.
As the old saying has it,” He is so heavenly minded that he is no earthly good.”
We call this hyper spirituality.
It’s a form of religiosity that is used as an excuse to laziness, passivity and
irresponsibility.
Some Thessalonian believers used it to justify their idleness. II Thess.3:11
Paul makes it clear that they are out of balance.
Jesus worked most of his adult life as a carpenter.
It’s amazing that he had time to work and make earthly goods (I would
love to sit in a chair that Jesus made).Wasn’t he on an urgent mission to save
the world! Aren’t we!
Time is for eternity. Time is not the opposite of eternity.
The earth is God’s work. It’s not a mistake nor a failure in his plan.
The balance comes when we do our earthly work with a heavenly attitude.
We have an ability to put an eternal quality into everything we touch.
Without a heavenly mindset all human endeavors would be nothing more than
just moving sand from one place to another, endlessly, without a purpose.
In the hands of God’s Spirit sand becomes a perfect vessel to fulfill God’s
eternal purpose on the earth.
The sand will pass away, the purpose will last forever.
The Holy Spirit can organize this dust to glorify God in a way
that all eternity will remember it. II Cor.4:7