Life above the sun

Life Above The Sun
Feb 17, 2017
When you are not enjoying abundant life,
you will feel as if life is full of toil. In
your heart, life is meaningless and
empty. You feel like someone “grasping
for the wind”. (Ecclesiastes 2:11)
It seems as if nothing you do adds up to
much. The Bible calls this life “under the
sun”. (Ecclesiastes 2:11) Someone who
lives life under the sun may or may not
know God, but God is either forgotten or
not the center of things in his life. His
thoughts are earthly and he does things
to gratify his flesh. In the end, he finds
life depressing and unfulfilled. Life under
the sun is full of despair.
But this is not so with someone who lives life
above the sun with God. For life with Him is filled
with joy and pleasures at His right hand. (Psalm
16:11) Life is abundantly full and good just as
Jesus promised—“I have come that they may have
life, and that they may have it more abundantly”.
When you live life above the sun, your thoughts are
heavenward and you become Christ-occupied. You
live for Him because you know that all things were
created through Him and for Him. (Colossians
1:16) When you live for His glory, your life takes on
a new meaning and purpose.
God’s Word says, “And He is before all things, and
in Him all things consist.” (Colossians 1:17) The
Greek word for “consist” means “held together”. In
Christ, all things are held together. And that is why
when Christ is the central figure in your life, you will
have it all together. Your mind will be held together.
Your hopes and dreams will be held together. Your
family will be held together by the cords of His
love.
Your life will not be empty, but full of God’s
goodness because “Christ in you, [is] the hope of
glory”. (Colossians 1:27) It is a wonderful life—this
life lived above the sun. And you will have an even
more wonderful life to come in heaven!