Too Heavenly Minded

Somewhere between being “too heavenly minded to be any earthly good:” sitting at the bus stop waiting for the rapture, and being “too earthly minded to be any earthly good:” sitting in church hoping Jesus fixes everything and we can be safe and at peace again, is being “spiritually minded, which is life and peace:” standing in the presence of Jesus for His direction and strength, so that we can stand in the presence of His enemies with authority and power, proving His Kingdom has come, and that we lead in it as His family members.

However, among the mature we do speak a wisdom, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. On the contrary, we speak God’s hidden wisdom in a mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age knew it, for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written:

What no eye has seen and no ear has heard,
and what has never come into a man’s heart,
is what God has prepared for those who love Him.

Now God has revealed them to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the concerns of a man except the spirit of the man that is in him? In the same way, no one knows the concerns of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, in order to know what has been freely given to us by God. We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people. But the natural man does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to know it since it is evaluated spiritually. The spiritual person, however, can evaluate everything, yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone. For:

who has known the Lord’s mind,
that he may instruct Him?

But we have the mind of Christ.
(1 Corinthians 2:6-16 HCSB ©®)