A s husbands , I wonder how many men have had their wives ask them before some social function, “What should I wear?” This has been true in our home over the past near ly 19 years of wonderful married life. We want to look our best. As Vance Havner said, “To be all out for Christ, you don’t need to look as if you were all in!” Did you know that the Word of God gives us the an swer to that question? As a matter of fact, it’s more up-to-date than any New York fashion designer or Pari sian couturier. Not only are we told what to put on, but also, first of all, and more importantly, what to take off! In Colossians 3:1 we read, “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.” The word if here actually represents a fulfilled condition. This is already an established fact. In Colossians 2: 12 we are reminded that we are “risen with Christ through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised Him from the dead.” Nature provides us with many wonderful and practical illustrations. One such is the little water spider. Although it has its abode down at the bottom of the lake or river, com plete safety surrounds it in a vacuum of air. While on the surface, the spider instinctively takes this bub ble of upper air and anchors it to the sandy bottom where it builds its nest and takes care of its young. So, beneath the ruffled surface above, the spider has its home in tranquility still completely dry and protected. This is quite a picture for our lives, too. As Christians, we live below in a world of turmoil. Yet we can still be surrounded by the atmosphere of
heaven. As a matter of fact, here is the very crux of the difference be tween a victorious Christian and one who is constantly defeated and de pressed. We are not only to seek heaven, but we are to think heaven, as Dr. A. T. Robertson pointed out. Colossians 3:2 exhorts us, “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” What a helpful word for today! Haven’t you 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 dimensions of life. Miss Linda Stewart (right), new freshman class treasurer, shares a happy time of testimony with Biola College Counselor, Mr. Terry Rose who was blinded during the Korean War. Linda, when she was one year old, suffered from an attack of infantile paralysis and has had to use crutches and braces ever since.
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