Heavenly minded

Letter III

"Keeping his mind on the inner life."

This is Screwtape's advice to Wormwood. It reminds me of the phrase, "Too heavenly minded to be of any earthly good." This can be a problem. You may not think so. You don't think of yourself as too heavenly minded. In fact you may think of yourself as too earthly minded. How about this? How many non Christ believing friends do you have? I mean friends, not just people you know. How often do you interact with people that don't believe the way you do? 

You go to church, go to bible study, your kids are home schooled by you or go to a Christian school, you listen to Christian radio, buy things at a Christian store, eat at Chick-fli-a. You get the picture. By the way. I must say none of these things are bad. In fact I do most of them.

The question we need to ask ourselves is how are we impacting others for Christ? If you neighbors aren't believers how are you befriending them? Is it just out of obligation or is it from the heart? We should not isolate ourselves from this world. Mark 16:15 " Go into the world..."

Also in Jesus' prayer for the disciples recorded for us in John 17, it is clear that Christ believing followers are to be in the world but not of it.  Today we are either not of this world or not in it. 

Once again it comes down to balance. How do we balance being heavenly minded with being earthly good?