Outta Our Minds

At our county’s sports complex is a beautiful track used by walkers and runners year-round.  Although there’s much activity in the colder months, it gets pretty busier closer to the spring school sports.  Several years ago, Dennis would go to the track and run after work – about midnight!  Mr. Bill and I scratched our heads a few things; we were thinking he must be outta his mind!

There are lots of things we are mindful of in the course of the day – time, finances, children, calendar, laundry, meals, etc.  Most of these things demand attention and cannot be ignored for long. We are told in 1 John 2 to be mindful of something eternal: “He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.” (V.6)  To walk like Christ is a tall order and certainly doesn’t come natural.  Mr. Bill and I watched [but only briefly] the Miss USA Pageant recently and it was clear each contestant had been tutored and spent countless hours perfecting her walk.  An effective walk with Christ does not come natural; we must work at it and it begins with the right kind of mind as Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 2:16: “But we have the mind of Christ.”  I agree, it’s not usually meant as a compliment when we say someone is out-of-his-mind.  That is, unless we have abandoned our own minds and taken that of Christ’s.  What an honor to be accused of being so mindful of Christ and His Walk – to be truly outta our minds!