Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God's right hand. (Colossians 3:1 NLT)
You never have to say to one whose heart is
wholly set upon God: "You must give up this and give up that." Leave such a one
with the Lord, and you will find those things go. It is a very blessed thing to
see a heart set upon the Lord. You need have no worries in that direction. All
the anxiety lies in the realm where the heart is not wholly for the Lord. The
apostle’s two letters to the Thessalonians are full of joy. He thanked the Lord
on every remembrance of them. He could not speak too highly of them or in terms
too glowing, simply because they turned from the world unto God, “to serve
the living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven,” and he
had no anxiety about them. When you turn to the Corinthians... there is a good
deal of trouble. It is the wilderness situation again – a divided heart.
A resurrection basis gives God a chance that is
right out to the Lord from the world. All that that means we have to learn. We
shall come to things we never expected if we are going on with the Lord. Things
on which we were so clearly settled as things being of God, and never for one
moment expected to have a question about, become challenged. Not that they were
not of God, but they were only of God up to a point, and now there is something
more beyond them. And unless we go on to the something more, the good becomes
the enemy of the best. And so, because of comparative values, we have to leave
what is good for the better; and then later the better for the best. It can only
come about as we are really going on with the Lord. But that requires, first of
all, that we have made a clean cut and have said: "I am out on resurrection
ground. I am out with the Lord utterly."