Living God’s Way: Christ, our life

Carlton G. McPeak Guest Columnist As a result of our commitment to die with Christ and God raising us “up with Christ,” there are some things we must do. Because of our action and God’s action, we now have a different focus. We are now making it our purpose to make Christ our life (Colossians 3:1-4). The reason we died with Christ and sought to be “raised up with Christ” was because we were “seeking the things above.” Paul encourages the Colossians, and us, to keep that focus of “seeking the things above,” which he defines as “where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.” When he says, “not on the things of this earth,” he references the everyday thi