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Challenge: Let every word you speak and action you take today be done to please God. Work hard to make it one day! This was the entire life of Jesus. Never a moment that He was not "pleasing God".

Paul encourage the believers to focus their minds, not on earthly things, but on things above. What does that mean? Does it mean that I will be uninterested in daily life? Does it mean that I will spend my days looking to the sky and longing for Christ return? Absolutely not! (Ok, maybe the longing.)

Look clearly at what Paul says it means. Verse 23 says, "whatever you do…do it for the Lord." Specifically, "love your wives, don't discourage your kids, obey human authority, work hard, etc." We often get confused about the things God truly wants of us. His goal is not to make us odd, but rather, to make us like Jesus.

For those of us who believe he says, "for you have (past tense) died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God." This is a lot to think about.