While the world is thinking in one direction, it is imperative that you and I wash our minds and think differently about sexuality, family, finances, priorities, and life. In a powerful quote, CS Lewis rightfully attributes the impact of men and women who have made lasting changes on the earth to the fact that they thought differently than their neighbors and even family members.
Lewis states, “If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.”
In other words, these individual Christians weren’t thinking about “here” as much as they were thinking about “there,” and therefore, it affected everything they did.
Lewis continues, “The Apostles themselves, who set on foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English Evangelicals who abolished the Slave Trade, all left their mark on Earth, precisely because their minds were occupied with Heaven.” […]
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I’ve often thought about that old saying, “[so and so] is too heavenly minded to be any earthly good”, and how backwards it is. If you read scripture, it plainly tells us that we cannot be any earthly good without being heavenly minded. To always be mindful that judgment is coming, and that eternal matters are more important. The difference is what the world considers to be “good”, vs the reality that what’s good is what Almighty God says it is.