Your mind is a curious thing, you can be out of your mind, but still in your right mind all at the same time.

Now this could be an age thing. The older you get the more your mind plays tricks on you. And your mind doesn’t work as fast at it used to. 

There are times you can know something but not know something at the same time. 

Let me explain.

Not that long ago my wife Lily and I were discussing what to do for dinner. When we have one of these discussions I’m always up for going out to eat or getting take out. 

So as our conversation leaned towards getting some food from a restaurant we started listing the same old suspects we usually do. 

Many of those restaurants are fast food joints and that particular night we didn’t feel like fast food. 

So we came up with a different idea, we would order from a sit down restaurant but do it take out style.

We picked Montana’s because I was particularly feeling like ribs was what I had a hankering for.

Lily placed the order and I was on pick up duty, which usually the way it works.

When it came time to get our food I hoped in the car and made my way to Montanas.

I was a few minutes late so I figured our food would be sitting there waiting for me. I was greeted by a little guy who may have been a busboy slash pickup orders gofer. 

He hurried off to get the food we’d ordered and I started looking around. 

I said to myself, “they’ve really changed this place”. It had been a while since I’d been there but wow it looked so different. 

Soon the little man came back with no food. He said I can’t find your order. 

There was an older hostess at the door by then and so she asked me a few questions. I told her what we ordered and she thought the order sounded a little odd.

I even should her the app showing that my order was ready.

She started to do some checking on line. She even got out a menu at one point. And tried to find what we ordered.

I casually asked the hostess while I patiently waited for my food if they had done some renovations in the last while. 

To that she said they done a little bit about 4 months ago. I thought to myself “it looks like they did a complete gut job and started over.”

It was about at that time when she said “are you sure your ordered from this restaurant.” 

And that is when a light bulb went off in my head. I said “what restaurant is this?”

To that she said this is Kelsey’s. I said my food is at Montana’s and started to laugh. 

She laughed too and I took off quick, because my food was getting cold at the restaurant just kitty corner to where I presently was.

I knew something was not right about my surroundings but I was completely out of my mind as to where I was. 

Here’s the thing: In your mind you can be convinced that our whole world including you came about by random chance. But your mind also tells you that everything in this world including yourself has great detailed order to it. How does random chance lead to anything but more random chance. Order leads to order. To prevent being convinced you’re in the right place when you aren’t at all. You need to challenge your mind to think not just follow it. So to when considering how ordered your body is, challenge your mind to think. Then God creating you and this world in order and detail starts to make a lot of sense.

Paul

Question: When has not challenging your mind got you into trouble? Leave your comments and questions below.

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