9 Sep 2015
There’s a tug-of-war going on; although, it’s not side-to-side,
but up-and-down. It’s a tug-of-war
between “what is above” and “what is on earth.”
It really is a struggle on the cosmic level. Of course, part of the tug-of-war is to even
believe that there is a cosmic level.
St Paul writes: “If you were raised with Christ, seek what is
above. . . . Think of what is above, not of what is on earth.” And that’s where the struggle is. We live in this world (both the bad and good
of it), and yet, God has made us to look beyond this world. As Christians, we’re oftentimes caught in the
middle of the two.
But when we feel “caught,” maybe we can hear those words of
St Paul in our conscience: “Seek what is above.” It sounds similar to what he said to the
Thessalonians: “Aspire to live a tranquil life.” It’s not necessarily a life detached from the
world. Instead, it’s a life open to the influence of that other world—where absolute Truth,
Goodness and Beauty are the Light that lights the day and the night.
“Seek what is above,” St Paul says. Be open to the influence of God, and let the
tug-of-war come to an end.
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