Colossians 3 explores what it means to set your mind on things above, enabling us to experience the true joy the Father wants to lavish on us. Furthermore, when we set our eyes on Him, we are better able to serve him—and service is ultimately the duty and pleasure of every believer.
People also ask, for where your treasure is there will your also be?
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also,” (Matthew 6:21).
Similarly one may ask, what does it mean to set your sights on the realities of heaven?
To seek those things which are above, is to set our sights on the realities of heaven, giving priority to the eternal rather than the temporal. For you died to this life, and should therefore have little desire for inappropriate worldly pleasures.
What is the background of Colossians?
During the first generation after Jesus, Paul’s epistles to various churches helped establish early Christian theology. According to Bruce Metzger, it was written in the 50s while Paul was in prison. Colossians is similar to Ephesians, also written at this time.
What is the message of Colossians 3?
Paul had instructed Christians to put on their new self of “compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other, as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.”
What Scripture says do not store up treasures on earth?
GOSPEL • MATTHEW 6:19-23
Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal.
What so ever things are true?
[8] Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.