I’m sure you’ve heard the saying – “so heavenly minded, no earthly good.” Well, I don’t believe that to be true. C.S. Lewis wrote, “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. 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. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’: aim at earth and you will get neither.”

The Psalmist writes, “Lord, what are human beings that you care for them, mere mortals that you think of them? They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.” You know, if you want to keep a heavenly perspective, it’s important not to forget your own mortality. Our days truly are a fleeting shadow. If we can be heavenly minded, we will make the most of our days on earth. Reach your world today - there’s no time to waste!

This is Luis Palau.