What’s Really Powering Your Life?

What’s Really Powering Your Life?

Modern proverbs have a familiar ring to them: Change your thinking, change your life. They promise clarity, control, and progress—if only we can get our thoughts in order.

Jesus doesn’t disagree, but He does go deeper.

“Out of the heart come…” He says—words, actions, loves, sins, and faithfulness. Jesus points us past surface-level thinking to the source beneath it all. Our external life—what people see, what we do, how we respond—is always being powered by our inner life.

That truth is both unsettling and freeing.

It’s unsettling because it means our struggles are rarely just about habits, discipline, or effort. It’s freeing because it means real change doesn’t start with trying harder—it starts with being re-centered.

That’s exactly where the apostle Paul begins in Colossians 3.

Paul has plenty to say about Christian living: how we treat one another, how we forgive, how we speak, how we love. But before he addresses a single outward behavior, he gives this instruction: “Set your minds on things above.”

Why begin there?

Because Christian living is never about behavior modification first. It’s about orientation. What captures your heart will shape your life. What fills your mind will direct your steps. When Christ is at the center, the rest of life begins to take shape around Him.

This is what resilient living looks like. Not perfection. Not constant self-correction. But a life continually drawn back to Christ—where forgiveness is received, identity is restored, and faith is renewed.

When our hearts are rooted in Him, our lives begin to reflect Him.

That’s the invitation of the gospel. And it’s the promise Paul holds out to a weary, distracted church—and to us.

Join us this Sunday at 9:30 am as we conclude our Resilient series with Resilient Living, and hear how Christ reshapes life from the inside out.