Col 3:1. τὰ ἄνω ζητεῖτε, seek the things that are above) Christ, after the resurrection, immediately directed His eager thoughts towards heaven, Joh 20:17, note.[20] So also believers, Eph 2:6.
[20] Comp. note, Luk 9:51. Jesus ever kept His eye fixed on the goal to which He was hastening. So, in Joh 20:17, He says, as if a present thing, I ascend, not, I will ascend: He hastened in feeling over the intermediate forty days to His actual entering heaven.-ED.