Taking Away Dross

This world can be so pretty, so exciting, so alluring, so interesting, so enticing.... when I have my physical health.

When my health goes, so does all interest in the things of this world.  So, that is how the 'dross', ie, the love of this world, is taken out of my life.  When I can do so little, I tend to focus on doing what is really important to God.  I always ask Jesus to give me wisdom for the day, grace for the day, and to open the doors for me He wants opened.  I trust Him to do that.   When I have limited energy then I can focus of what is really important.. and that's Jesus and the life  eternal to come!

Just think, someday we believers will be with our Savior in Paradise... forever young, forever strong, forever healthy, forever happy, forever fulfilled.  That will be the great day, to see Jesus face to face.   God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more, neither shall there be anguish (sorrow and mourning) nor grief nor pain any more, for the old conditions and the former order of things have passed away.  (Rev. 21:4 AMP)

Therefore, if you have been raised with the Messiah, keep focusing on the things that are above, where the Messiah is seated at the right hand of God. Keep your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on the earth.  For you have died, and your life has been safely guarded by the Messiah in God.  When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed, then you, too, will be revealed with him in glory. (Col. 3:1-4 ISV)