One thing I am asking the Lord to each me this year is to set my affection on things above. Since God is high above all, it seemed a good place to start to set my affection on Him. But how? What does it mean to set my love upon Him? In his book, Treasury of David, Charles Spurgeon quotes from Mary B. M. Duncan’s thoughts on this verse. She says it so beautifully that I will quote her here. May it be spiritual food for thought!
“’He hath set his love upon me.’
“We have a similar expression in daily use, which means the bending of all our energies to one end -- a ceaseless effort after one object. We say, ‘I have set my heart on such a thing.’ This is what God will have from us -- an intense, single hearted love. We must love him ‘with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our strength, and with all our mind,’ so that, like Jesus, we may ‘delight to do his will.’
“Just let us think of the way in which setting our heart on anything affects us, head, hands, time, thought, action -- all are at work for us [our?] attainment. How we sacrifice everything else to it! Comfort, ease, present advantage, money, health, nay, our very selves, go freely for the sake of our cherished wish. Have I so ‘set my heart upon’ God?
“Temperaments differ. This may be an overdrawn picture of the way in which some of us seek a cherished object. But each knows his own capability in this way. God also knows our frame, and requires his best at every man's hand.”
~Mary B. M. Duncan.