Would It Not Be Wonderful?

"You get more flies with honey than with vinegar."

I wish the church would realize this.

Too many people are so focused on not seeking/doing evil that they don't even realize that there is an epic good to seek/do.

Colossians 3:2
"Set your mind on the things above, 
not on the things that are on earth."


Many Christians upon reading this verse think, "Ok, Self, don't think about earthly things. Don't do it! You are not supposed to think about those things, remember? No thinking on things on earth."

This type of thinking only encourages thinking about earthly things -- because we can't think of what to think about instead -- and we'd have to simply not think at all to obey the command.

Why? Because we focused on the negative instead of the positive.

We focused on what not to do instead of what to do.

If flight attendants only instructed passengers to not leave their seats or not shoot a hole in the window during an emergency, chaos would reign when an emergency came.

It is so much more wonderful to "set your mind on the things above"
than it is to not set your mind "on the things that are on earth."

Have you ever considered what "things above" are? What beauty and power and honor and wonder they might contain? Daydreaming about beautifully honorable existences is much more fun in my opinion than imagining horrid ways the world might end.

Romans 8:18
"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us."


Glory sounds like a word that is only used in church, but it basically implies the way a pop star preforms: with fireworks and lights and glitter and wigs and clothes that no one would ever wear anywhere else.


Speaking of clothing, I wish I could wear prom dresses everywhere, everyday. But I can't -- mainly because my mastiff would ruin them with slobber. But wouldn't it be wonderful if I could dress like a princess everyday and do everyday things looking like a princess? 


Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could live and thrive and create and love and be at peace?
Wouldn't it be wonderful if every word that came out of our mouths was full of grace and wisdom? 
If we did nothing simply because it was what we always had done? 


If we were kind strangers and blessed everyone as much as we could -- not out of obligation or a desire to earn favor with God or man -- but because we truly loved everyone?


Wouldn't it be wonderful if guilt did not exist?


If love and truth and honor were the way we lived and breathed -- and we knew nothing else but good?


Someday, dear brothers and sisters, it will be so.
Set your minds on things above.