A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

We have all heard that expression in recent times. Jesus concurred with that.

Deuteronomy 6:5 is the first expression about how we should love and serve God: "Thou shalt love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might." In Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Jesus changed "might" to MIND.

Jesus gave us the great gift of using our mind or intellect to navigate life.

I am rereading a book by John Ortberg entitled "Who Is This Man?" His premise is that wherever the gospel has been received, blessings of God have followed. All the industrialized nations of the world—where learning, education, technology, and general improvement in the quality of life have occurred—have experienced these things because of the influence of the Christian gospel. Daniel's prophecy that in the last days "knowledge shall increase" (Daniel 12:4) has borne out in remarkable ways.

We have electricity, indoor heat, and plumbing because of the influence of the gospel. When I was in college, the new thing that came was a computer—we had to make punch cards and the computer filled a room the size of a bedroom. Today we give it no thought whatsoever that we each carry around a microcomputer in our pockets. We don't live in caves and wear animal skins and walk everywhere we go. These things are all the blessings and benefits of Christ coming into the world and men receiving the gospel down through history.

When we understand the blessing God's amazing plan brought into the world, that should cause us to want to fall on our knees and praise Him and thank Him, and spend time with Him. We do that in fellowship with Him through prayer and communing with Him.

On top of that, He has told us that nothing is withheld from us if we will only ask in prayer believing, and that prayer can change all things.

Does that make you want to go pray? It does me.