Why God Gave Brains
by an Old Disciple of Jesus Christ
“As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he shall have convenient time.”~ 1 Cor. 16:12
If we were created in the image of God, and He was the original, independent Thinker, and we are told to, “Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children”; then it goes without saying, each of us should be doing some thinking on our own. But I’m afraid today we have more corporate thinking, than individual thought. In the former you have one person doing the thinking for the group; in the latter, individuals are doing their own thinking, independently of anyone else.
For a group of individuals to think for themselves, and then come to the same conclusion, this can be both healthy and safe. But for one to do this for the whole is dangerous indeed.
You can always spot independent thinkers; they surround themselves with writers and associates who do not necessarily hold all their views. Such reading and discussions are not threatening to them, but rather enlightening. Those who encompass themselves with like-minded people and literature, never grow, but continue to be intellectual pygmies till the day of their demise.
Without argument, most of us are 75% assimilations of the books we’ve read, people we have associated with, parental teachings, and schools we attended. But what of the other 25%? Are we to let it lie dormant all our lives? I for one do not want to spend the rest of what life I have left parroting others. That would be a strange bird indeed.
”Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.” ~Euripides
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Very good devotional