What Should Be The Mind Set of The Saints of God?

If one were to gage their mind set for the day, by the news reports, it would be easy to be overcome by fear and lost in despair. If one were to contemplate every conspiracy theory going one could become quite mad.

One of the most recent news stories is that a plague has descended upon Mexico, and has already made its way into Texas, and as far north as New York City, and 2 cases have been found here in Kansas where I live, and who knows where else. The last few years it was the bird flu, now its the swine flu.

Are we to become troubled by these things saints?
NO...we are to rest in the Lord...we are to concentrate on today!

We can't change yesterday, and God holds tomorrow!

It is He Who holds our lives in His hands...and whether we live or we die we are The Lords...

Romans 14:8
For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.

I find it sad, that Christians for the most part are far from the mind set that the disciples of Christ had in their time...

2 Corinthians 5:1-10
1. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
3. If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
4. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
5. Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
6. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7. (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
8. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
9. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
10. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
The disciples here it also seems are saying that they along with all the body of Christ shall appear before the judgement seat of Christ! So saints we had better all occupy our time here in fear of God, not fear of man.

Philippians 1:20-24
20. According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
21. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
22. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
23. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
24. Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

Hebrews 11:10-speaking of Abraham
For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Hebrews 11:13-16-speaking of the saints of old
13. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
15. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
16. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Acts 7:51-60-Here in is the life and ministry of a precious saint displayed
51. Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
52. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
53. Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
54. When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
55. But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
56. And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
57. Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
58. And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.
59. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
60. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

These men were not men whose minds were set on the world and the thing of the world, these were men whose minds were set on the heavenlies. While they were here they busied themselves with preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Why oh why church do we love this world so? Why oh why do we not rather desire and yearn to be with Jesus/Yeshua in our heavenly home, a city not made with hands.