Suppose, for a moment, you are the president, and you have made the decision to respond to all your critics. You’ve determined that to protect your character, an immediate rebuttal is required for every lie, allegation and disparaging word. Here is what you are up against: there are 1,700 television stations in the United States; about 14,000 radio stations, and 1,000-plus daily newspapers. If each of them publishes just one criticism of you per week, you would need to address thousands of criticisms every single day…and that’s before you begin tackling the criticism on hundreds of thousands of websites.

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Colossians 3:2

It can’t be done, and any good president would not waste his time on it – there are more important things to do. So why do you waste time responding to criticism, trying to get even, or wallowing in the misery others would foist upon you? There are more important things to do…heavenly-focused things.

Today, ask God to help you look beyond the earthly and unimportant to the eternal and the extraordinary. That’s the way you’ll make a difference in your neighborhood, and your nation, today!

Recommended Reading: II Corinthians 4:7-18