High Ground for the Affection
Colossians 3:1-4
If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God.…


Thou puttest wheat in the low ground, and thy friend comes, who knows the nature of the corn and the land, and instructs thine unskilfulness, and says to thee, "What hast thou done? thou hast put the corn in the flat soil, in the lower land; the soil is moist; the seed will rot, and thou wilt lose thy labour." Thou answerest, "What, then, must I do?" "Remove it," he says, "into the higher ground." Dost thou, then, give ear to a friend who gives thee counsel about thy corn, and despisest thou God, who gives thee counsel about thy heart? Thou fearest to put thy corn in the low ground, and wilt thou lose thine heart in the earth?

(T. H. Leary.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

WEB: If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.




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