Earthly Minded or Heavenly Minded?

"If we had actually reached a place of such spiritual commitment that the wonders of heaven were so close that we longed for the illuminating Presence of our Lord, we would not go into such a fearful and frantic performance every time we find something wrong with our physical frame."
A.W. Tozer

Wow! Talk about conviction! I need to reach a place of spiritual commitment that the circumstances of this world (good or bad) do not bother me. I need to be heavenly minded and not earthly minded! As I have been blogging about recently, it is much harder to be heavenly or eternally minded when things aren't going your way. I guess the good news is that when circumstances are bad, I think about God and His ways almost constantly and I talk to Him almost without stopping. I know that God has His purposes for all of our negative circumstances and I know that He is presently shaping me into His image and trying to get me to see more than ever before that it is about His Kingdom and not mine. This situation with my house not selling and therefore us not having anywhere to move to is very frustrating, but I know I need to take my mind off my Kingdom and wait on Him. Then I will be freed up to focus on His Kingdom. Then I will be heavenly or eternally minded. That is what I need.

Jesus said it best (of course): "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Matthew 6:25-34