“Set Your Mind on Things Above” — Morning by Morning, April 20, 2026

“Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth” (Colossians 3:2).

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Morning by Morning, April 20, 2026 — “Set Your Mind on Things Above”

Good morning, Lord Jesus. In these first moments of my morning, I listen for Your leading (John 10:27). ...

As I watch and wait, this Word comes to mind:

“Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth” (Colossians 3:2).

What I “set” my mind to is where I place the priority of my focus.

To “set” my mind “on things above” is not to ignore “things on the earth.” But it is to acknowledge the “things on the earth” that I go through, that go on around me in my world on this earth, do not have the priority, do not define my identity or my destiny, and do not have the last word in my life.

To “set” my mind “on things above” reminds me of who I am and where I am seated with You in the heavenly places, as Your Word declares:

“And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

“But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:1-7).

By the power and gift of Your grace, You’ve “made (me) sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (v. 6). When I consciously, deliberately choose to remember this Truth and embrace Your perspective of my heavenly place in You, I “set (my) mind on things above.”

In that high place above in You, embracing Your high place in me—“Christ in (me), the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27)—I “let the peace of God rule in (my) heart” (v. 15).

In that high place in You, that high place with You, in the heavenly places above, I can receive and embrace “the exceeding greatness of (Your) power toward us who believe, according to the working of (Your) mighty power” where I am seated with You and seated in You “far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come” (Ephesians 1:15-23).

Lord, give me this perspective. Empower me to live into this perspective this day and every day, as I set my mind on things above, answering Your invitation to “Abide in (You), and (You) in me” (John 15:4). Empower me to grow in my understanding of all that You mean by Your Word that I have been “made alive together with Christ ... and raised up together ... to sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:4-7). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.