Film Friday In the film Argylle, Elly is an author who has written a series of successful and popular novels around her super spy Argylle. However, little by little the actions she has written about begin to encroach on her real life. She is turning out to be more than she ever knew. This set me thinking about the Bible and the way that this book affects our real day-to-day lives, and that you and I are actually more than we know at times. In the book of 1 Peter chapter 2 and verse 5 we are described as living stones, being built into a whole new version of God’s temple on earth. Vital parts of the work God is doing down here. In Ephesians chapter 2 verse 21 we are described again as those living stones coming together and becoming a holy temple, a home for our God.
On a wet Monday morning we may feel more like damp rags than precious holy stones. Likewise in the middle of a difficult sleepless night. This life can bring us down and steal away the reality of our identity in Jesus. Yet Paul holds nothing back as he describes us in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 6 as precious people seated with God in high places, and in doing this he is inviting us to fix our minds on the things of heaven so that it affects our behaviour here on earth. Fix your thoughts on what is true and honourable and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. He urges us in Philippians chapter 4 verse 8. It’s good to know what is going on in the world, important to be informed and connected, but too much of the bad news can rob us of any hope – so fixing our minds on the things of God can instead inspire us to be people of hope, allowing the ways of the Bible to infiltrate our daily living. Affecting how we treat the gift of this world and those we meet in it.
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