Things Above

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 18, 1906

THE very intensity of the times tends to distract our minds and to prevent us from devoting our best thought to the things of the kingdom of God. The things which are seen press themselves upon our attention. The constant turmoil and strife in various parts of the world, the frequency of great disasters, and the steady increase of shocking crimes, may occupy our minds to such an extent that we have little time or mental power to give to the cause and kingdom of God in the earth. It is not enough to know that violence is filling the world; we must also know that the Prince of Peace dwells in our hearts. It is of more importance that we should daily enter by faith into the heavenly sanctuary with our great High Priest and avail ourselves of his intercession in our behalf than that we should rove to the ends of the earth with the news-gatherers or study the particulars of every move in the great political game. "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth." "The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever."