Day 15: Set your minds

A problem I've been having is knowing what scripture to read for that morning.  Sometimes I go to the Psalms, sometimes something else comes into my head.  This morning, I was turning to 1 John to read more on God's love and I opened to Colossians.  Normally, I don't condone randomly flipping the bible open and reading what's there.  Its not bad, you're still reading the word of God and all scripture is appropriate for sanctification, but its a little too irresponsible in my opinion for daily reading. 
Today, I stopped on Colossians and read v. 1-4 of chapter 1.  I was immediately hit with its message.

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.  Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.  For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.  When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

What struck me was v. 2.  Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Practically, that means giving up my earthly dreams.  My dreams of serving God and doing what he calls me to do are still valid, but my dreams of living in an old victorian mansion, of being married and having kids, of new furniture and TVs, of being famous according to man - all must be given up for the things of heaven.
Rarely do I do this, but I brought my Greek training into play and looked the Greek word translated, "set".  It is from the Greek word froneo.  (I can't get a Greek font in here.)  It means to exercise the mind, to be disposed to think of, intensively to interest oneself in. 
I can have hobbies and desires for earthly things, but they cannot be my obsession or my stronghold.  I cannot escape to a movie when I could escape to the word of God.  My earthly resources must be used to advance my heavenly calling.  Only then will I be truly dead to myself and alive in Christ.