The human brain fascinates me beyond anything else. I can watch a show about discoveries in physics, or the exploration of great ocean depths, or the latest information from the farthest reaches of space and it will not captivate me to the degree that the human brain does. Today I ate oatmeal, some chocolate covered pretzels (thanks Ruth!), and a pack of cheese crackers. With this meager fuel my brain will be able to outperform the computer on which I am typing this blog. Chemical reactions occurring in countless synapses between miles of nerves are resulting in my thoughts. I believe this is where the essence of God operates within me. I am creating something. My thoughts are generating a blog post. This post may spur creation to occur in you (if so then please post a comment). The same God that spoke and created the universe gave me the ability to create. Other brains in this world will create art, music, dance, or make discoveries in physics, chemistry, engineering, history, etc. Out of my thoughts comes creativity. Something is generated. There is creation. What was an electo-chemical response in my brain can become something tangible- like a blog post. This fruit can be good... it can also be not so good.
When a mind lacks the presence of God there is a chance for some bad results. There has been plenty of non-God directed mind productions. Slavery, pornography, abortion, castes, and sexism are a few examples of mind power lacking God's presence.
So, when I choose to love God with all of my mind I need to be sure I am loving Him with all of my heart first. Loving Him with all of my heart means He is a part of my being. When God is a part of who I am then the products of my thinking will have that essence of God in them.
By the way, I have to give credit to Mark Batterson and his book Primal for inspiring my Wednesday night lesson series and the resulting blog posts. There is a link to his blog on here- check it out. Also, I highly recommend his books to anyone who can read.
3 comments:
it's interesting that I'm hitting this topic in my studies of the Synoptics, Mark to be specific. As the Pharisees have done so many times, they were questioning Jesus about the most important of the commandments. Jesus answers by saying, "love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength (Mark 12:30)." It's particularly interesting that Jesus prioritized from where we should begin to love God from. First the heart, second our soul, third our mind, and fourth our strength.
The order changes in Luke I think. Either way the church today is certainly too academic in its appoach. If it was about who we are (Godliness) and what we do (good fruit) MORE than what we know (doctrine) I think we would be in better shape.
The human mind is an incredible biological supercomputer, the main processes of which are connected to the body.If it were to be unhindered of this burden it could process vast amounts of technological data (If it could handle the phycholigical shock of loseing it's container, of course) And yet, millions (If not, billions!) beleive that they all came to be from the sheer chance of the universe, a rock even(look it up, it is in the theory), from a past so long ago their minds cannot comprehend it. Its shamful, really.
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