Colossians 3:1-3, “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.”
My middle name is Oddball. Not really, but when a kid, on the school bus one day, I was asked what that “O” of my middle name stood for. Before I could get it out of my mouth, if I tried, another spoke up and said, perhaps in humor (hopefully so), “Oddball.” And so it stuck. Well, not really either, but that incident apparently did stick in my head.
Oddball, but how so? For one: Today I’m not so much into television as I was in my growing up years. An oddball? Then, I might have been known as “walking TV Guide,” familiar with just about every program that was on the air – perhaps to my detriment. Wow, was I informed.!?
In later years, too, television seems to have been my inheritance – perhaps again to my detriment – sometimes even having watched late into the night, only to wake up the next morning finding the last thing watched still on my mind.
Hence, today I have realized the temporalness of such, and the pursuing after that of the purely earthly substance. Perhaps to my detriment, as some may think, but I have not a bunch of household stuff (in attic, basement, or even financial portfolio), but realistically, and my now realization, for my betterment. As the Scripture says, “Christ is all that matters” Colossians 3:11.
