Putting On be surrounded by the atmosphere of heaven. As a matter of fact, here is the very crux of difference be tween a victorious Christian and one who is constantly defeated and depressed.
in the Caroline chain. People be gan buying maps of the South Pa cific. They learned of new places of which they had never heard. Why the sudden interest? Why, they had loved ones in these areas! Now, so should it be with the Christian's relationship to the things of heaven. He should be occupied with thoughts of the place where someday he will spend all eternity. One of our listeners over the years, now home in the presence of the Lord, Mrs. Helen Lemmel, wrote a Gospel chorus containing these lovely words:
We are not only to seek heaven but we are to think heaven, as Dr. A. T. Robertson pointed out. Col- ossians 3:2 exhorts us, "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth." What a help ful word for today! Have you not found it relatively easy to be con cerned with the things about you? In this way we soon forget that there is an "above" in our dimen sions of life. During World War II, in the early days of the Pacific fighting, new names were cropping up in the newspaper accounts — Iowa Jima, Saipan, Palmyra Islands and others
"Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face, And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, In the light of His glory and grace."
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