I spend a good deal of time sticking posters up with Blu-tak. I don’t know the history of this amazing product, but I do benefit from it!
My husband, an engineer with infinitely more patience than I have, rolls a small ball of Blu-tak between forefinger and thumb before affixing a poster to the wall. It’s noteworthy that his posters tend to stay stuck to the wall much longer than mine do…
Attaching something to a wall sometimes requires more than Blu-tak, though. Sometimes we need a picture hook to hang a photograph. Sometimes we need screws and rawlplugs. It all depends on what we are attaching and how permanent we want the attachment to be!
Hebrews 3:1 says, ‘Fix your thoughts on Jesus.’ The word translated in the NIV as ‘fix’ means to ‘observe fully, to behold, to consider, to discover.’ It means to think decisively to a definite and clear understanding.
To fix your thoughts on Jesus is, I feel, a job for superglue, not Blu-tak! It requires effort, determination, a set attitude. What we think determines to a large extend who we are and what we do. The battle is won in our thoughts.
But the Bible goes on to tell us to fix our hearts and minds on things above, not just our thoughts (see Col 3:1-2). It’s not enough simply to think about God intermittently, as an optional extra in our lives that enhances us in moments of need. God must be the centre always. He must permeate every critical decision we make, our assessment of the world and our situations. The popular phrase ‘What would Jesus do?’ needs to penetrate our everyday thinking.
For this to happen, we need more than Blu-tak thoughts. We need the concentrated power of real glue, the fixed attachment of screws and rawlplugs, and an ongoing determination to look to Jesus in every situation of life.